Re: Autoconf

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:58:44AM -0700, Christopher Owen wrote:
> When compiling nmap on OSX Leopard, I noticed some errors in the ./ 
> configure output.
>
>     rm: conftest.dSYM: is a directory
>
> Searching around this is definitely a bug in autoconf on Leopard that  
> is fixed in the latest 2.62 release.  nmap currently uses autoconf  
> 2.13, which was released in '99.

Hi Chris!  Wow, that is great that 2.62 was released a few weeks ago.
The previous release was 2.61 from November 2006 :(.  But we aren't
using 2.13.  Our configure.ac has:

AC_PREREQ(2.13)

But that just means that we *insist* on at least version 2.13.  But we
actually use 2.61 for the distributed tarballs (with much newer
config.sub/config.guess files):

flog~/nmap>find . -name configure -exec egrep '^# Generated by GNU' '{}' \;
# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61.
# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61.
# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61.
# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61.
# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61 for PCRE 7.6.
# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61.
# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61.
flog~/nmap>

Cheers,
-F

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