custom apache build fails on Red-Hat 3 Enterprise

conficio

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The rebuild of customapache does fail on red-Hat 3 Enterprise, because the build of gd, the graphics library fails. Reason, autoconf version 2.57 is too old. The build loops endlessly. Should probably throw an error.

Solution, go to http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/ and download a newer version of autoconf.

untar; cd folder; ./configure; make; make install

This will produce a newer version of autoconf. Rpm will still report the old and wrong version, but the gd build is happy.
 
Yes and No

I did some research on rpmfind.net and it indicated that only redhat4 has a newer version as rpm. However the link to redhat was broken so I resolved to getting the source and compile it myself.

I have to admit I'm not a big expert in redhat ES, so I don't really where to officially look. I'm more trained in SuSE and now Ubuntu.

Sorry if I couldn't be more helpful.

Kaj
 
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Try the CentOS repositories :) . They don't require a Red Hat membership. They work.

Jeff
 
Autoconf is included into custombuild, you can take the code from it and install it manually, if you don't want to install custombuild.
 
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