GA 5.6 release - autotools are downloaded and built even when latest versions exist

[ajaypanyala]

When trying to build GA-5.6 release tarball - autoconf2.69, automake 1.11 and libtool 2.4.6 are downloaded and built even when these versions exist.

[abhinavvishnu]

Hi Jeff:

Ajay recently pointed out to this. Can you please take care of it?

Thanks,

:- Abhinav

[jeffhammond]

I know I am not the Jeff you meant, but I will try to work on this as well. Given how many places I use that script, I have a selfish interest in making it as efficient as possible 😉

[jeffdaily]

Something else to check in the script -- I just heard from a colleague that the script fails to download the various tarballs due to port restrictions. They're able to git clone the repo just fine, but wget fails. I also tried, but the problem is that the FTP port is blocked. I'm not sure how to resolve this unless there is another URL for downloading the tarballs.

[ajaypanyala]

M4_VERSION_MIN is set to 1.4.12. When the script finds m4 say v1.4.13 on the system, it proceeds to download and install autoconf-2.69, but the autoconf configure script fails with the error

checking for GNU M4 that supports accurate traces... configure: error: no acceptable m4 could be found in $PATH.
GNU M4 1.4.6 or later is required; 1.4.16 or newer is recommended.
GNU M4 1.4.15 uses a buggy replacement strstr on some systems.
Glibc 2.9 - 2.12 and GNU M4 1.4.11 - 1.4.15 have another strstr bug.
FAILURE 3

I set M4_VERSION_MIN=1.4.16 to avoid this error (M4-1.4.17 gets downloaded and built)

[jeffdaily]

I've tried to fix this in the hotfix/5.6.1 branch. I hope it's working better now.

[ajaypanyala]

It works now. Thanks Jeff!