Due to backbranch packaging, and having to support several different
versions of autoconf as a results, its a bit more confusing ...
'k, normally it would be in /usr/local/bin:
developer# ls -lt autoconf-*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 14657 Aug 13 2009 autoconf-2.62
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13420 Aug 26 2007 autoconf-2.61
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 5009 Aug 16 2007 autoconf-2.13
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7674 Aug 16 2007 autoconf-2.59
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6196 Aug 16 2007 autoconf-2.53
But, since they seem to have 'skipped' 2.63 in FreeBSD for some reason
(current version in ports is 2.68), 2.63 had to be manually installed
seperately from ports:
developer# /root/bin/autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.63
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.
Sorry for the confusion on that ...
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Going once, going twice...
>>
>> I'll go ahead and do this, barring objections or some other volunteer.
>
> developer.postgresql.org apparently hates me. After waiting an
> insanely long time to copy over the exported tarball to that machine,
> I tried to follow the instructions at
> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Alpha_release_process but of course it
> didn't work:
>
> $ src/tools/version_stamp.pl alpha4
> Stamped these files with version number 9.1alpha4:
> configure.in
> doc/bug.template
> src/include/pg_config.h.win32
> src/interfaces/libpq/libpq.rc.in
> src/port/win32ver.rc
> Don't forget to run autoconf 2.63 before committing.
> $ autoconf --version
> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.62
> Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later
> <http://gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>
> Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.
> $ autoconf
> configure.in:22: error: Autoconf version 2.63 is required.
> Untested combinations of 'autoconf' and PostgreSQL versions are not
> recommended. You can remove the check from 'configure.in' but it is then
> your responsibility whether the result works or not.
> configure.in:22: the top level
> autom4te-2.62: /usr/local/bin/gm4 failed with exit status: 1
>
> As Magnus pointed out to me on IM, there must be a usable version of
> autoconf on this machine somewhere if it's doing the nightly snapshot
> builds, but beats me where it is. Help?
>
> --
> Robert Haas
> EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
> The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
>
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