Re: Freebsd & autoconf-2.63

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: abindra(at)u(dot)washington(dot)edu
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Freebsd & autoconf-2.63
Date: 2009-11-06 06:09:57
Message-ID: 29027.1257487797@sss.pgh.pa.us
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abindra(at)u(dot)washington(dot)edu writes:
> I downloaded the latest postgresql code via cvs on a FreeBSD 7.2 system. When I try to run autoconf on the source it tells me that I need autoconf-2.63. However the freeBSD ports only has autoconf-6.62.

> Does anyone have any suggestion on how to resolve this? I posted a question on the freebsd ports forum but have not had any solutions.

Well, you could grab our nightly tarball instead of pulling from CVS.
Or you could remove the version-check line from configure.in. The
latter is actually very likely to work, we just don't promise anything
(if it breaks, debugging is your problem not ours).

regards, tom lane

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