[gnutls-help] Autogen version>5.9 is needed to build gnutls3.4?

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On Tue, 2015-10-06 at 17:22 -0700, Mat Troi wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to build gnutls 3.4 from the source and it complains 
> about autogen 5.9.  
> 
> /usr/ccs/bin/autogen /work/gnutls-3.4.1/src/ocsptool-args.def
> Error in template /usr/share/autogen/optlib.tpl, line 557
>         DEFINITIONS ERROR in /usr/share/autogen/optlib.tpl line 557 
> for ocsptool-args.c:
>         unknown arg type 'file' for infile
> Failing Guile command:  = = = = =
> 
> (error (string-append "unknown arg type '"
>                    (get "arg-type") "' for " flg-name))
> 
> It seems if I use 5.16 it is okay.  I can't update the current system 
> to autogen 5.16, is there a workaround?

You don't need autogen to compile from source. Use "--enable-local
-libopts".

regards,
Nikos