Issue 8872 - configure.in has long been deprecated
Summary: configure.in has long been deprecated
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: OpenLDAP
Classification: Unclassified
Component: slapd (show other issues)
Version: 2.4.45
Hardware: All All
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Target Milestone: 2.5.0
Assignee: OpenLDAP project
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Reported: 2018-06-30 10:49 UTC by fturco@fastmail.fm
Modified: 2021-03-01 11:44 UTC (History)
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Description fturco@fastmail.fm 2018-06-30 10:49:43 UTC 
Full_Name: Francesco Turco
Version: 2.4.45
OS: Gentoo Linux
URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
Submission from: (NULL) (2001:b07:2eb:c9ed:21c:c0ff:fead:3d70)


The Portage package manager reports the following warning message when building
net-nds/openldap-2.4.45 on Gentoo Linux:

 * This package has a configure.in file which has long been deprecated.  Please
 * update it to use configure.ac instead as newer versions of autotools will
die
 * when it finds this file.  See https://bugs.gentoo.org/426262 for details.

Original bug report: https://bugs.gentoo.org/607686
Comment 1 Howard Chu 2018-06-30 16:37:20 UTC 
fturco@fastmail.fm wrote:
> Full_Name: Francesco Turco
> Version: 2.4.45
> OS: Gentoo Linux
> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
> Submission from: (NULL) (2001:b07:2eb:c9ed:21c:c0ff:fead:3d70)
> 
> 
> The Portage package manager reports the following warning message when building
> net-nds/openldap-2.4.45 on Gentoo Linux:
> 
>   * This package has a configure.in file which has long been deprecated.  Please
>   * update it to use configure.ac instead as newer versions of autotools will
> die
>   * when it finds this file.  See https://bugs.gentoo.org/426262 for details.
> 
> Original bug report: https://bugs.gentoo.org/607686

Not a priority. The version of autoconf we use has been frozen for a long time 
and isn't going to change any time soon. End-users aren't expected to run the 
autotools themselves anyway, only the OpenLDAP Release Engineer does that. And 
changing filenames out of the blue is not viewed fondly by people trolling 
commit histories.

Closing this ITS.

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   -- Howard Chu
   CTO, Symas Corp.           http://www.symas.com
   Director, Highland Sun     http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
   Chief Architect, OpenLDAP  http://www.openldap.org/project/
Comment 2 Howard Chu 2018-06-30 16:38:17 UTC 
changed state Open to Closed
Comment 4 Quanah Gibson-Mount 2020-10-01 21:16:31 UTC 
Commits: 
  • 2dace701 
by Quanah Gibson-Mount at 2020-10-01T16:41:34+00:00 
ITS#8872 - Rename configure.in to configure.ac
Comment 5 Ondřej Kuzník 2021-03-01 11:44:41 UTC 
*** Issue 9485 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***