Re: [bug-inetutils] Missing header for logger.c and OpenBSD

[Mats Erik Andersson]

onsdag den 18 augusti 2010 klockan 10:14 skrev Alfred M. Szmidt detta:
>    I include a printout for the action to use autoreconf-2.59 and
>    autoreconf-2.62 on a freshly unpacked inetutils-1.8.tar.gz.  No
>    manipulation on any file after unpacking, not even a touch to get a
>    more recent time stamp. These actions are taking place in OpenBSD
>    4.6.
> 
> Thanks.  Why do you need to run autoreconf with a released version of
> inetutils?

In my upcoming work on IPv6 for tftp/tftpd I need to add three functions
to libinetutils. Thus I need to perform a reconfiguration also on OpenBSD.
The failure of autoreconfiguration was to my eyes identical for OpenBSD
with inetutils-1.8 as with git-HEAD, so I just the released version
to get a clean point for reporting this observation.

There are no problems in GNU/Linux, but OpenBSD makes jests on me.
As a work around I manually push the three helper functions into
"src/tftp.c" when testing on OpenBSD, but I would of course prefer
to drop that extra work. The helper functions will be necessary
also for the services beyond tftp/tftpd when I implement IPv6
also there.

> 
>    In the first case, using autoreconf-2.59, the claim
> 
>       configure.ac:29: error: Autoconf version 2.62 or higher is
>       required
> 
> [...]
> 
>    $ export AUTOMAKE_VERSION=1.9
> 
> configure.ac:29 is regarding automake, and we require automake 1.11.
> Seems that the error message is totally bollocks.  Can you try with a
> automake 1.11 or later?

OpenBSD 4.6 (released November 2009) has autoconf-2.62 and automake-1.9.6
prepackaged in the repository, and no later version. Therefore I will have
to install any later helper software myself. I find November 2009 recent
enough that I expected the existent helper software to work without fuss.


Regards,

Mats E A