[maemo-developers] autoconf upgrade problem

[From: josh.soref at nokia.com]

Kwan Hong Lee wrote:
> For some reason, even if I have the new autoconf directory 
> added to the beginning of the directory, when I call 
> pulseaudio/autogen.sh it uses the older autoconf, currently 
> 2.59.  I can't modify sb_autoconf_wrapper because it's read only.
> 
> What can I do?

Please don't reply to individuals. This is a list for a reason.

timeless at koku:/scratchbox/tools/bin$ echo *2.50*
autoconf2.50 autoheader2.50 autoreconf2.50
timeless at koku:/scratchbox/tools/bin$ ls -l autoconf2.50
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 2008-03-31 18:52 autoconf2.50 ->
../autotools/autoconf2.59/bin/autoconf
timeless at koku:/scratchbox/tools/bin$ cd ../autotools/
timeless at koku:/scratchbox/tools/autotools$ ls
autoconf2.13  autoconf2.59  automake-1.4  automake-1.7  automake-1.8
automake-1.9
timeless at koku:/scratchbox/tools/autotools$ mkdir ~/ac262
timeless at koku:/scratchbox/tools/autotools$ pushd ~/ac262/
~/ac262 /scratchbox/tools/autotools
timeless at koku:~/ac262$ wget
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.62.tar.bz2 2> /dev/null >
/dev/null
timeless at koku:~/ac262$ tar jxf autoconf-2.62.tar.bz2
timeless at koku:~/ac262$ cd autoconf-2.62/
timeless at koku:~/ac262$ ./configure
--prefix=/scratchbox/tools/autotools/autoconf2.62
timeless at koku:~/ac262/autoconf-2.62$ make -s

root at koku:~# cd /home/timeless/ac262/autoconf-2.62
root at koku:/home/timeless/ac262/autoconf-2.62# make install 2> /dev/null
> /dev/null
root at koku:/home/timeless/ac262/autoconf-2.62# cd /scratchbox/tools/bin
root at koku:/scratchbox/tools/bin# ls -l autoconf2.50
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 2008-03-31 18:52 autoconf2.50 ->
../autotools/autoconf2.59/bin/autoconf
root at koku:/scratchbox/tools/bin# ln -s
../autotools/autoconf2.62/bin/autoconf autoconf2.60
root at koku:/scratchbox/tools/bin# ln -s
../autotools/autoconf2.62/bin/autoheader autoheader2.60
root at koku:/scratchbox/tools/bin# ln -s
../autotools/autoconf2.62/bin/autoreconf autoreconf2.60
root at koku:/scratchbox/tools/bin# patch < /dev/stdin
--- sb_autoconf_wrapper	2008-05-05 09:40:45.000000000 +0300
+++ sb_autoconf_wrapper	2008-05-05 09:42:47.000000000 +0300
@@ -26,2 +26,4 @@
 	    ac250 ();
+	} elsif ($force eq '2.60' || $force eq '2.62') {
+	    ac260 ();
 	} else {
@@ -158,2 +160,9 @@
-# Default to 2.13.
-ac213 ();
+my $force = $ENV{'SBOX_DEFAULT_AUTOCONF'};
+if ($force eq '2.50' || $force eq '2.59') {
+    ac250 ();
+} elsif ($force eq '2.60' || $force eq '2.62') {
+    ac260 ();
+} else {
+    # Default to 2.13.
+    ac213 ();
+}
@@ -222 +223,5 @@
+sub ac260 {
+    run_autoconf ("/scratchbox/tools/bin/${mode}2.60");
+}
+
 sub run_autoconf {
^D
patching file sb_autoconf_wrapper
Hunk #2 succeeded at 161 (offset 1 line).
Hunk #3 succeeded at 224 with fuzz 1 (offset 1 line).

sbox-arm at koku:~$ scratchbox
[sbox-test-arm: ~] > SBOX_DEFAULT_AUTOCONF=2.60
[sbox-test-arm: ~] > export SBOX_DEFAULT_AUTOCONF
[sbox-test-arm: ~] > autoconf
autoconf2.60: no input file