Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] postgresql fails to build

[Tony Theodore]

On 13 March 2012 17:43, Santiago Germino <address@hidden> wrote:
>> That is likely to be a problem, Autoconf >= 2.64 is required. We tend
>> to peg the requirements [1] against Debian stable, so you probably
>> have it installed and just need to select it somehow (maybe with
>> dpkg-reconfigure).
>
> Yes, I've forced it to 2.68 and it worked flawlessly. Is it possible
> to include something like AC_PREREQ(2.64) to force the debian wrapper
> script (and parhaps others) to choose a suitable version or fail with
> a useful error description?

I'm not sure about forcing the wrapper script to use a certain
version, we wouldn't usually do something that is so specific to an
os.

Failing early is certainly possible and may be as simple as writing a
small configure.ac that checks our requirements. Most of the
requirements are fairly common and probably already have AC macros for
version testing. It's not something I've looked at though.

Cheers,

Tony