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_ firefox-47.0 and autoconf-2.13

I have tried to build firefox-47.0, but it failed :<

$ nice make -f client.mk build
... snip ...
js/src> Could not find autoconf 2.13
*** Fix above errors and then restart with\

but I have already installed autoconf.

$ autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, <http://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.

I don't know why, but firefox-47.0 (or later?) require just autoconf-2.13 to build itself. so, I have installed autoconf-2.13 to only build firefox-47.0 in /usr/local/autoconf-2.13.

$ tar xvvf autoconf-2.13.tar.gz
$ cd autoconf-2.13
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/autoconf-2.13
$ make
# make install
# cd /usr/local/autoconf-2.13/bin
# ln -s autoconf autoconf-2.13

and then I have edited .mozconfig like this.

export LDFLAGS="-latomic"
. $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig
ac_add_options --enable-optimize
ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk2
ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --disable-tests
ac_add_options --disable-mochitest
ac_add_options --enable-gstreamer=1.0

and build & install like this.

$ PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/autoconf-2.13/bin/; export PATH
$ nice make -f client.mk build && cd obj-i686-pc-linux-gnu/ && nice make package

# mkdir /usr/local/firefox-47.0
# cd /usr/local/firefox-47.0
# tar xvvf /home/m-ito/tmp/firefox-47.0/obj-i686-pc-linux-gnu/dist/firefox-47.0.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2

# mkdir /usr/local/gecko-sdk-47.0
# cd /usr/local/gecko-sdk-47.0
# cp -rL /home/m-ito/tmp/firefox-47.0/obj-i686-pc-linux-gnu/dist/sdk .
# cd sdk
# cp -rL /home/m-ito/tmp/firefox-47.0/obj-i686-pc-linux-gnu/dist/idl .
# cp -rL /home/m-ito/tmp/firefox-47.0/obj-i686-pc-linux-gnu/dist/include .

Finally I have succeeded to build and install :)