I've been building Subversion and httpd on FreeBSD for 2 years, and
never had a problem with autoconf. I'm currently using autoconf 2.53,
and I'm guessing that I must have skipped 2.52.
I suspect that httpd documention comment is way out of date.
Michael Price <mprice@atl.lmco.com> writes:
> $ ~/src/httpd-2.0> tail -6 README.platforms
> ==========
> FreeBSD:
> autoconf 2.52 creates scripts that are incompatible with the Posix
> shell implementation (/bin/sh) on FreeBSD. Be sure to use v2.13
> of autoconf.
>
> $ ~/src/subversion> head -126 INSTALL | tail -7
> 2. autoconf 2.50 or newer (Unix only)
>
> This is required only if you plan to build from the latest source
> (See section II.B). Generally only developers would be doing this,
> but at this stage in Subversion's development chances are you'll
> want to do this as well.
>
> That kinds sucks if you happen to be using FreeBSD. Anyone know how
> serious that warning is in the README.platforms file?
>
> Michael
>
>
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