[Freeipa-devel] autogen.sh script?

[Nathan Kinder]

On 01/25/2010 03:36 PM, John Dennis wrote:
> Who wrote our autogen.sh script and why?
>
> Why aren't we using autoreconf instead?
>
> FWIW autogen.sh is seriously broken, it's getting incorrect results 
> when comparing different versions of tools. It thinks 1.7 is newer 
> than 1.11 because it's doing string comparisons which causes it to run 
> the wrong versions of some of the tools. I can fix the version 
> comparison but my inclination is not to bother since autogen scripts 
> have been replaced by the autoreconf tool. As for testing the minimum 
> required tool version; is there an actual problem being solved by this?
>
It was likely inherited from 389 DS, which was inherited from somewhere 
I don't recall.  The main reason for minimum version checking in DS was 
due to generating a configure that worked across 
RHEL/Fedora/Solaris/HP-UX without running autoreconf on all of those 
systems before each build (which didn't work either IIRC).  It was found 
that specific versions were needed to make this work.