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

Thomas Graf tgraf at noironetworks.com
Fri Jun 27 07:35:59 UTC 2014


On 06/26/14 at 06:04pm, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 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.

Thanks! I've sent out a v2 with your comments addressed.



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