From: "Dilger, Andreas" Subject: Unable to build e2fsprogs 1.42.11 on RHEL 5 Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 22:04:53 +0000 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Cc: "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" To: Theodore Ts'o Return-path: Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]:32701 "EHLO mga11.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751164AbaGXWFL convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2014 18:05:11 -0400 Content-Language: en-US Content-ID: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: I'm unable to build the latest e2fsprogs on RHEL 5, since it returns an error running autoconf: autoconf aclocal.m4:3095: error: Autoconf version 2.60 or higher is required aclocal.m4:3095: the top level The "2.60" version is explicitly checked in aclocal.m4, and changing it to "2.59" (as is shipped with RHEL5) results in more errors: autoconf configure.in:903: warning: AC_PROG_MKDIR_P is m4_require'd but is not m4_defun'd configure.in:903: AC_PROG_MKDIR_P is required by... aclocal.m4:3292: AM_PO_SUBDIRS is expanded from... configure.in:903: AM_PO_SUBDIRS is required by... aclocal.m4:626: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is expanded from... configure.in:903: the top level [etc] It looks like this was added in commit 93613951 "aclocal.m4: update to newer versions of autoconf macros". Was there a particular reason for that change (there is no explanation given in the commit message)? I tried reverting that patch to build on RHEL5 again, and it also appears to work on RHEL6, but there may be issues with newer autoconf versions... Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Lustre Software Architect Intel High Performance Data Division