Opened 8 years ago

Closed 8 years ago

#7939 closed enhancement (fixed)

autoconf-2.13 is needed by firefox-47.0

Reported by: ken@… Owned by: ken@…
Priority: normal Milestone: 7.10
Component: BOOK Version: SVN
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

It seems that distros have installed autoconf-2.13 for firefox for many years - we managed to get away without it. But now firefox-47 has introduced configure.py (initially, it is used in js/src - no idea if it replaces all of configure yet). And that dies if autoconf-2.13 is not found.

Trying to use an environment variable to persuade it to use current autoconf fails: 

autoconf: error: invalid option `--localdir=/scratch/ken/firefox-47.0/js/src'

At the moment, it fails many tests (pre-install), and it installs an old copy of standards.info which would overwrite the current version - I'm looking at those issues.

Change History (2)

comment:1 by ken@…, 8 years ago

Status: new → assigned

comment:2 by ken@…, 8 years ago

Resolution: → fixed
Status: assigned → closed

Fixed at r17494

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