Re: Freebsd & autoconf-2.63

Thank you Heikki!

I am new to unix, and when "make" said I need to configure I just "Assumed" i need to run autoconf. Running configure directly worked.

Thank you for your help.

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:

> abindra(at)u(dot)washington(dot)edu wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Go to http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/, and download and install a
> newer version of autoconf.
>
> You shouldn't actually need to run autoconf even when building from a
> CVS checkout, because we keep the generated "configure" file in CVS as
> well. Unless you have edited configure.in, you can just do "./configure;
> make install"
>
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> Heikki Linnakangas
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