On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, David West wrote:

(I'll reply to the -z problem separately)

> Building on Redhat 5.2:
>
> The suggestion to provide a dummy autoconf which only responds to -v
> works if one also provides a dummy autoheader which responds to -v with
> the same message that the dummy autoconf gives (just symlink the dummy
> autoheader to the dummy autoconf).

Sounds good enough in my ears.

> This trick enabled me to build 7.5.1 and later 7.5.2 on Redhat 5.2.

Goodie.

> the curl distribution should provide and use these dummies, since using
> real local autoconf and autoheader can (as here) cause unobvious build
> fails.

I can see the point in this, however it would instead introduce other
peculiarities for users who have a correct version and wants to use it. Your
situation is actually very odd, when you do *have* autoconf/autoheader but
they're too old to be used!

Using the faked versions would force me to have patch the configure script
after I've (locally) generated it with autoconf here as I can't assume people
have . in their path.

I think I'd rather stick your excellent example script and hints into the FAQ
and INSTALL documents on how to install during such circumstances.

Thanks for letting me know!

-- 
  Daniel Stenberg -- curl project maintainer -- http://curl.haxx.se/