Building 1.9.1 on CentOS 5.5

[Robin Bowes]

On 04/06/10 18:40, David Malcolm wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 18:00 +0100, Robin Bowes wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just tried to rebuild ruby-1.9.1.378-16.el5.fr191.src.rpm on CentOS
>> 5.5 and get this error:
>>
>> + autoconf
>> configure.in:4: error: Autoconf version 2.60 or higher is required
>> configure.in:4: the top level
>> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63
>> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.92052 (%build)
>>
>> Note that this is the el5 package.
>>
>> Can that requirement be relaxed, ie. will it work with autoconf-2.59-12
>> that is available on RHEL/CentOS 5.5 ?
> 
> I don't know if Ruby needs it, but I ran into a similar issue for Python
> 2.6 in EPEL 5: the configure.in required autoconf 2.61.  
> 
> To get around this, I set up the python26.spec file to make it easy to
> regenerate this file on a Fedora box with a more recent autoconf.
> 
> grep for "regenerate_autotooling_patch" in here:
> http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/EL-5/python26/python26.spec?revision=1.2&view=markup
> 
> which also has links to docs on getting the newer autoconf.

David,

Thanks, but... ugh!

R.