On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Steve VanDevender wrote:
fetchmail 5.7.4, like fetchmail 5.7.2, generates a Makefile that
contains dependencies on the nonexistent aclocal.m4. I don't really see
aclocal.m4 should be distributed in the .tar.gz, maybe there's a bug in the
makefiles or something like that, which keeps deleting it.
The tarball should have aclocal.m4 (for dependency purposes), and configure
already generated.
why I should have to install GNU autoconf just to build fetchmail; no
5.7.4 is supposed to try to detect if autoconf, aclocal and autoheader are
available, and disable them if not.
However, if autoconf IS installed, aclocal is NOT (i.e. automake is not
installed), and aclocal.m4 is missing, this WILL break the build. Does that
describe what happened to you?
fetchmail 5.7.4 also seems dead-set on trying to build with inet6
support even if I pass the configure option "--disable-inet6". By
default it tries to enable inet6 support; with "--disable-inet6"
configure bonks out with:
Hmm... that does not happen here. And reading configure.in (and configure,
just in case), it is not supposed to either. Broken configure (i.e. broken
autoconf), perhaps?
(as I said, I am not using Eric's configure, but rather the one generated by
autoconf in a Debian unstable system, from Eric's configure.in) so someone
using the configure script in the .tar.gz will need to test this.
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