problems building GPG

[Janusz A. Urbanowicz]

> Janusz wrote:
> <<I have encountered some problems while building GPG 0.9.4, 0.9.5 and 0.9.6.
> I'm using source of 0.4.5 with complete set of official patches up to 0.9.6.
> They patch flawlesly then configure passes, but make throws up:
> 
> cd . && autoheader
> /usr/bin/autoheader: Symbol 'WITH_SYMBOL_UNDERSCORE' is not covered by
> /usr/lib/autoconf/acconfig.h ./acconfig.h
> make: *** [stamp-h.in] Error 1>>
> 
> The precise same thing happened to me under identical circumstances.
> 
> <<My autoconf version is 2.12, automake is 1.3.>>
> 
> You need to upgrade your autoconf to 2.13.  I was stumped by this
> until I finally clued in and looked at a doc file and saw that they
> changed the required autoconf to 2.13 on the sly.

It worked. Thank you. So, why doesn't configure detect older autoconf and
report this ? This is, like a bug.
Alex
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