Ron Cemer wrote: > configure.ac:20: error: Autoconf version 2.65 or higher is required
This is an error message from Thrift, not from Autoconf, so it's not something that the Autoconf folks can do anything about. For more information about this particular problem see: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-858 More generally, it sounds like you're assuming that the development host must be the same as the final operating platform. That's rarely true for major projects these days; it's quite common to assume that developers have more up-to-date tools than whatever old OS their software eventually has to run on. If this doesn't describe your development environment, it might be a good time to think about upgrading.
