[ovs-dev] [PATCH] build: Allow building with autoconf 2.63

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Fri Jun 27 01:04:26 UTC 2014


On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 01:50:25AM +0200, Thomas Graf wrote:
> Reduces the dependency on autoconf from 2.64 to 2.63 to ease building
> on older platforms. There is only a few macros missing and they can
> be provided easily.
> 
> A handful of tests needed modification. The difference in quoting
> behaviour between 2.63 and later require the m4_define() to be
> manually unfolded.
> 
> Tested with autoconf 2.63 and 2.69.
> 
> Cc: Scott Mann <smann at noironetworks.com>
> Cc: Don Kehn <dkehn at noironetworks.com>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf at noironetworks.com>

This should also update INSTALL and INSTALL.RHEL, which mention that
Autoconf 2.64 is required, as well as adding an item to NEWS.



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