Should we uncomment AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR(macros) in configure.ac now?

[Mike Alexander]

--On May 24, 2010 7:22:54 PM +1000 Tao Wang <dancefire at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I got a message from running './autogen.sh' talk about using
> AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR, I found the line in configure.ac is commentted:
>
> # Enable only when we have autoconf --version >= 2.59
> # on all platforms. Note that AC_PREREQ(2.59) may be
> # insufficient to actually use v2.59 on OSX
> #AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR(macros)
>
> It's not an error, so nothing affect the building, uncomment the line
> just make autogen.sh quite about this.
>
> I also found the discussion of this:
>
> http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2005-November/014583
> .html
>
> It's 4 years ago, is it still true for MacOSX in the discussion? is it
> safe to uncomment the line?

In MacOSX 10.5.8 /usr/bin/autoconf is version 2.61.  I'm actually using 
the version in MacPorts which is 2.65.  What's the earliest version of 
MacOSX supported?  If it's Leopard then I think it's safe to require 
version autoconf 2.59 or later.  I don't have a 10.4 system around so I 
can't see what version of autoconf it had.

            Mike