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Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 13:27:00 -0400
To: OpenMacNews <openmacnews@gmail.com>
Sender: Ilia Alshanetsky <iliaal@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] why does php support 'only' out-of-date/obsolete versions of automake/autoconf?
From: ilia@prohost.org (Ilia Alshanetsky)

PHP works just fine with newer version of autoconf and automake.  For  
example I am using autoconf 2.60 and automake 1.9.6 and not  
experiencing any build issues. One of the reasons we recommend  
autoconf 2.13 is because it has a non-broken implementation of config  
test caching and unlike autoconf 2.60 does not require re-running of  
every configuration test on PHP rebuild.


On 6-Oct-06, at 1:17 PM, OpenMacNews wrote:

> php52-cvs' "INSTALL" states:
>
> 	"autoconf 2.13 and automake 1.4+ are required (newer versions of
> autoconf may work, but are not supported)"
>
> @ distrowatch, distros haven't shipped for ages with automake 1.4.
>
> automake 1.4 was released:                     14-Jan-1999
> current/stable automake (v1.9.6) was released: 10-Jul-2005
>
> (1) why has this not been updated to more recent/shipped/released
> versions ?  is there a legit reason?
>
> (2) what needs to happen to get this updated? who leads the charge?
>
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Ilia Alshanetsky