[Xapian-discuss] building on RHEL 5/CentOS 5

[Olly Betts]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:13:16AM +0100, Tim Brody wrote:
> RHEL5 has autoconf 2.59 and automake 1.9.6.
> 
> I've managed to build the whole Xapian family by reducing the
> requirement to 2.59/1.9.6 in configure.ac.
> 
> Omega requires docdir which can be added by hand in docs/Makefile.am:
> docdir = ${datadir}/doc/${PACKAGE}
> 
> if !MAINTAINER_NO_DOCS
> dist_doc_DATA = $(RSTHTML)
> endif

Xapian 1.2.x should no longer require autoreconf to be run in the spec file.
Is it actually still needed for some reason?

(And 1.0.x requires autoconf >= 2.59 and automake >= 1.9).

Cheers,
    Olly