[CentOS] Problem building latest Courier-authlib on CentOS4

Thu May 17 15:34:06 UTC 2012
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Bowie Bailey wrote:
> Upgrading to CentOS6 is on my list, but I'm trying to get the latest
> Courier-MTA running at the moment.
>
> I downloaded the current courier tarballs and tried to build the rpms on a
> CentOS4 system.  I got these errors:
>
> $ rpmbuild -tb courier-authlib-0.64.0.tar.bz2
<snip>
> RPM build errors:
>     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.93944 (%build)
>
> I asked on the Courier list and Sam said that my libtool is too old.  He
> suggested adding an "autoreconf" line to the spec file, but that just
> generated an error that my Autoconf is too old.
>
> Can someone give me a pointer as to how to fix this?

You may not be able to, not without doing some programming yourself.
You're trying to build a current package on an o/s two releases old, with
no updates since, um, last year?

       mark