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Niklas Hambüchen 57daa860e8 autoconf: Fix C++17 detection not working on Ubuntu 16.04.
And probably many other distributions.

Until now, ./configure would fail silently printing a warning

    ./configure: line 4621: AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX_17: command not found

and then continuing, later failing with a C++ #error saying that some C++11
feature isn't supported (it didn't even get to the C++17 features).

This is because older distributions don't come with the
`AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX_17` m4 macro.

This commit vendors that macro accordingly.

Now ./configure complains correctly:

    configure: error: *** A compiler with support for C++17 language features is required.

On Ubuntu 16.04, ./configure completes if a newer compiler is used, e.g. with
gcc-7 from https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-toolchain-r/+archive/ubuntu/test
using:

    ./bootstrap.sh
    ./configure CXX=g++-7 --disable-doc-gen --with-boost=$(nix-build --no-link '<nixpkgs>' -A boost.dev)
2019-07-03 04:32:25 +02:00

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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
version="5.0"
xml:id="sec-prerequisites-source">
<title>Prerequisites</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>GNU Make.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Bash Shell. The <literal>./configure</literal> script
relies on bashisms, so Bash is required.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>A version of GCC or Clang that supports C++17.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><command>pkg-config</command> to locate
dependencies. If your distribution does not provide it, you can get
it from <link
xlink:href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config"
/>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The OpenSSL library to calculate cryptographic hashes.
If your distribution does not provide it, you can get it from <link
xlink:href="https://www.openssl.org"/>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The <literal>libbrotlienc</literal> and
<literal>libbrotlidec</literal> libraries to provide implementation
of the Brotli compression algorithm. They are available for download
from the official repository <link
xlink:href="https://github.com/google/brotli" />.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The bzip2 compressor program and the
<literal>libbz2</literal> library. Thus you must have bzip2
installed, including development headers and libraries. If your
distribution does not provide these, you can obtain bzip2 from <link
xlink:href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180624184756/http://www.bzip.org/"
/>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><literal>liblzma</literal>, which is provided by
XZ Utils. If your distribution does not provide this, you can
get it from <link xlink:href="https://tukaani.org/xz/"/>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>cURL and its library. If your distribution does not
provide it, you can get it from <link
xlink:href="https://curl.haxx.se/"/>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The SQLite embedded database library, version 3.6.19
or higher. If your distribution does not provide it, please install
it from <link xlink:href="http://www.sqlite.org/" />.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The <link
xlink:href="http://www.hboehm.info/gc/">Boehm
garbage collector</link> to reduce the evaluators memory
consumption (optional). To enable it, install
<literal>pkgconfig</literal> and the Boehm garbage collector, and
pass the flag <option>--enable-gc</option> to
<command>configure</command>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The <literal>boost</literal> library of version
1.66.0 or higher. It can be obtained from the official web site
<link xlink:href="https://www.boost.org/" />.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The <literal>editline</literal> library of version
1.14.0 or higher. It can be obtained from the its repository
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/troglobit/editline" />.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The <command>xmllint</command> and
<command>xsltproc</command> programs to build this manual and the
man-pages. These are part of the <literal>libxml2</literal> and
<literal>libxslt</literal> packages, respectively. You also need
the <link
xlink:href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/projects/xsl/">DocBook
XSL stylesheets</link> and optionally the <link
xlink:href="http://www.docbook.org/schemas/5x"> DocBook 5.0 RELAX NG
schemas</link>. Note that these are only required if you modify the
manual sources or when you are building from the Git
repository.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Recent versions of Bison and Flex to build the
parser. (This is because Nix needs GLR support in Bison and
reentrancy support in Flex.) For Bison, you need version 2.6, which
can be obtained from the <link
xlink:href="ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bison">GNU FTP
server</link>. For Flex, you need version 2.5.35, which is
available on <link
xlink:href="http://lex.sourceforge.net/">SourceForge</link>.
Slightly older versions may also work, but ancient versions like the
ubiquitous 2.5.4a won't. Note that these are only required if you
modify the parser or when you are building from the Git
repository.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The <literal>libseccomp</literal> is used to provide
syscall filtering on Linux. This is an optional dependency and can
be disabled passing a <option>--disable-seccomp-sandboxing</option>
option to the <command>configure</command> script (Not recommended
unless your system doesn't support
<literal>libseccomp</literal>). To get the library, visit <link
xlink:href="https://github.com/seccomp/libseccomp"
/>.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>