Freebsd & autoconf-2.63

abindra@u.washington.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"

--
Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

abindra@u.washington.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

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:

Thanks Tom. Heikki's suggestion resolved the issue.

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Tom Lane wrote: