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

[John Ralls]

On May 24, 2010, at 6:45 AM, Mike Alexander wrote:

> --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.
> 

Gtk-OSX doesn't use the built-in autoconf, it builds one itself. The current version used is 2.65. MacPorts and Fink both have versions later than 2.6 available, so making 2.59 a minimum for new builds of Gnucash shouldn't be a problem.

Regards,
John Ralls