Re:Non-Recursive Make Considered Harmful [pdf]
by technion on Sunday April 10, 2016 @12:25AM
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I was working on a CentOS 6 box not long back and it's shocking just how many big projects you pretty much can't build. Not because they didn't write portable C, but because they have requirements on a minimum version of autoconf, which is later than shipping under CentOS 6.
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Re:Non-Recursive Make Considered Harmful [pdf]
by gnufx on Sunday April 10, 2016 @01:55PM
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autoconf _shouldn't_ be relevant to building, rather than maintaining the project. (I know you can't always get a proper release in this day and age.)
In some cases you do need to re-autoconfiscate, which is why EPEL6 has autoconf268 (from RHEL7). Otherwise there's a software collection with up-to-date autotools, though you might expect them in the devtoolsets.