com web/php: Remove automake as a dependency to build PHP: git.php

Commit: 29b30614a6942d57765d61b71a3b2e6c6a4d4a0c Author: Peter Kokot <peterkokot@gmail.com> Sun, 21 Oct 2018 14:15:28 +0200 Parents: d91377e67e6f7e5d8368b50b715bdb72eb8f4788 Branches: master Link: http://git.php.net/?p=web/php.git;a=commitdiff;h=29b30614a6942d57765d61b71a3b2e6c6a4d4a0c Log: Remove automake as a dependency to build PHP The Automake and aclocal were part of the previous PHP build system where Automake created Makefile from the Makefile.in templates and aclocal was used to produce the aclocal.m4. Need for Automake as a dependency to build PHP has been removed in PHP 4.3.0 release and aclocal also in that period of 4.3 releases. Refs: - http://php.net/ChangeLog-4.php - http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;h=e715fb00f8850990d51cee4e08e84a58f0eb0012 - http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;h=9d9d39a0de3bec962c343051011f5a2ed7d7b242 Changed paths: M git.php Diff: diff --git a/git.php b/git.php index 2756aa2..a811e49 100644 --- a/git.php +++ b/git.php @@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ site_header("Git Access", array("current" => "community")); <li><i>PHP 7.3</i>: 2.68+</li> </ul> </li> - <li><i>automake</i>: 1.4+</li> <li><i>libtool</i>: 1.4..x+ (except 1.4.2)</li> <li><i>re2c</i>: 0.13.4+</li> <li id="bison"><i>bison</i>: @@ -124,7 +123,7 @@ site_header("Git Access", array("current" => "community")); <li> <div class="tip" style="margin: 10px 0 10px 20px;"> - <p>Note that certain combinations of autoconf, automake and libtool may not + <p>Note that certain combinations of autoconf and libtool may not work when used together, particularly with historical versions of PHP. See <a href="#buildconf_fail">below</a> for details.<br> Also, certain versions of autoconf may generate warnings of <code>AC_PROG_CPP @@ -174,7 +173,7 @@ site_header("Git Access", array("current" => "community")); <h2>Historical issues</h2> -<h3 id="buildconf_fail">autoconf, automake and libtool information for PHP 5.3 and below</h3> +<h3 id="buildconf_fail">autoconf and libtool information for PHP 5.3 and below</h3> <p> There seem to be problems with libtool 1.4.2. It is suggested @@ -190,6 +189,8 @@ site_header("Git Access", array("current" => "community")); <li>autoconf 2.13, automake 1.5 and libtool 1.4.3</li> </ul> +<p>Since PHP 4.3 automake and its aclocal program are no longer needed to build PHP.</p> + <p> If you have multiple versions of autoconf installed on your computer, as is common for many UNIXes, you can set the PHP_AUTOCONF and PHP_AUTOHEADER