about autoconf >= 2.64

[Joel Sherrill]

On 03/02/2010 10:58 AM, pierre kestener wrote:
> Hello,
>
> While upgrading from Ubuntu 9.04 to Ubuntu 9.10, autoconf was updated
> from 2.63 to 2.64, and I noticed that some of the configure script are
> not well generated anymore in RTEMS source tree.
>
>    
The autoconf version is tied to the RTEMS version. For
hosts we provide binaries on, automake/autoconf is included
in the RTEMS toolset.  Updating autotools can break things
so we tend not to update it on release branches.  You can see
this by the latest (or terminal) autoconf RPM for each release
branch.

rtems-4.6-autoconf-rtems-2.59-0.noarch
rtems-4.7-autoconf-2.60-4.el5.noarch
rtems-4.8-autoconf-2.61-7.el5.noarch
rtems-4.9-autoconf-2.62-4.fc12.noarch
rtems-4.10-autoconf-2.65-1.fc12.noarch

> For example, the generated cpukit/configure contains the following piece
> of code (bad shell code):
> ##############################
> if test x"${enable_rtems_debug}" = x"yes"
>
> cat>>confdefs.h<<_ACEOF
> #define RTEMS_DEBUG 1
> _ACEOF
> ; then :
>
> fi
> ##############################
>
> Falling back to "old" autoconf 2.63, everything works perfectly on
> Ubuntu 9.10
> I also tried autoconf 2.65, the bug is still there.
>
> I was wondering if such a bug was Ubuntu-specific, and if someone was
> using autoconf>=2.64 with success and on which distribution ?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Pierre Kestener.
>
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