[sugar] dbus-python requires autoconf-2.59c?

Marco Pesenti Gritti mpg at redhat.com
Sun Apr 29 18:02:32 EDT 2007


On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 09:41 -0700, Don Hopkins wrote:
> I'm trying to rebuild a fresh sugar-jhbuild, and now I've run into the 
> problem that dbus-python requires autoconf-2.59c, while I only have 2.59 
> installed, which is the latest version yum knows about.
> 
> I downloaded the source to autoconf-2.59c, and installed it in /usr/bin, 
> and now dbus-python seems to be compiling.
> 
> Is there a reason for this dependency?

I don't really know, would have to ask upstream (actually the
dbus-python developers are subscribed to this list so they might know).

>  Shouldn't the sanity check 
> require the correct version of autoconf?

Yep, I added it to sanitycheck.

Marco



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