gnucash-18-branch configure.in

[Derek Atkins]

The 1.8 branch target platform is Red Hat 7.3, based specifically
on autoconf-2.13.  So, I'm unwilling to apply this patch to the 1.8
branch.

How does it fail on Debian?  Sounds like a debian-specific issue to me.
It works just fine for me on RH9, FC1, and other relatively modern OSes

-derek

Neil Williams <linux at codehelp.co.uk> writes:

> Sorry this isn't in makepatch format, but it's really small - I couldn't build 
> the branch on Debian without the PREREQ tag. Is it possible this can be 
> included or was there a reason why it was omitted?
>
> Without this patch, autoconf tried to build using autoconf2.13 which failed.
>
> From the Debian autoconf readme:
> Otherwise, `configure.in' (or the file specified on the
>           command line, if any) is read.  It is checked for the
>           presence of an AC_PREREQ directive.  If it specifies a
>           minimum version higher than 2.13, Autoconf 2.50 is used.
>           `aclocal.m4', if present, is also scanned.
>
> (Any of these would let it build on Debian, I just selected that one for the 
> patch - if there's a better one, that's fine.)
>
> --- configure.in.old    2004-11-02 21:06:04.000000000 +0000
> +++ configure.in        2004-11-02 21:05:32.000000000 +0000
> @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ dnl Process this file with autoconf to p
>  AC_INIT(src/engine/Transaction.h)
>
>  AC_PROG_CC
> +AC_PREREQ(2.53)
>
>  GNUCASH_MAJOR_VERSION=1
>  GNUCASH_MINOR_VERSION=8

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