The boost macro's require a newer autoconf

They depend on among other things AC_PROG_GREP
which was introduced in autoconf 2.60

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index a631f32d79260d30b99a00a35b911288aaf00515..75a740bdef0eab4b5ce0090236daa3d9c1b9a7c9 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ LT_INIT
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
 AC_C_BIGENDIAN
-AC_PREREQ(2.52)
+AC_PREREQ([2.61])
 : ${CXXFLAGS="-Wall -O2"}
 AC_PREFIX_DEFAULT(/usr/local)
 AC_PROG_CC