autoconf and libnumbertext dependency

[Chris Sherlock]

On 4 May 2018, at 4:41 pm, Tor Lillqvist <tml at iki.fi> wrote:
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> configure.ac:6 <http://configure.ac:6/>: error: Autoconf version 2.68 or higher is required
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> I’m running on MacOS High Sierra. 
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> macOS does not come with any version of autoconf (or automake), so you have always needed to build it yourself anyway in order to build LibreOffice, no? (Installing some pre-built one from some 3rd-party packaging thing, homebrew etc, has not been recommended). So just make sure that you build and install a new enough version? I seem to have 2.69, and it is from 2015, so version 2.68 isn't exactly brand new.
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> (How LODE handles it I have no idea. Does it include autoconf, and is that what is too old?)
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> --tml
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Reasonable point, I’ll look into this more. Thanks Tor. 

Chris
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