Relax autoconf support from 2.60 to 2.59. This is the version available on Centos/RHEL/Oracle Linux 5.6

NEWS

@@ -3,8 +3,9 @@ PHP                                                                        NEWS
 ?? ??? 201?, PHP 5.4.0
 - Upgraded bundled Sqlite3 to version 3.7.4. (Ilia)
 - Upgraded bundled PCRE to version 8.10. (Ilia)
-- autoconf 2.60+ is now supported (and required) for generating the configure
-  script with ./buildconf (Rasmus)
+- autoconf 2.59+ is now supported (and required) for generating the
+  configure script with ./buildconf. Autoconf 2.60+ is desirable
+  otherwise the configure help order may be incorrect.  (Rasmus, Chris Jones)
 
 - Removed legacy features:
   . break/continue $var syntax. (Dmitry)

build/buildcheck.sh

@@ -28,18 +28,18 @@ if test -z "$PHP_AUTOCONF"; then
   PHP_AUTOCONF='autoconf'
 fi
 
-# autoconf 2.60 or newer
+# autoconf 2.59 or newer
 ac_version=`$PHP_AUTOCONF --version 2>/dev/null|head -n 1|sed -e 's/^[^0-9]*//' -e 's/[a-z]* *$//'`
 if test -z "$ac_version"; then
 echo "buildconf: autoconf not found."
-echo "           You need autoconf version 2.60 or newer installed"
+echo "           You need autoconf version 2.59 or newer installed"
 echo "           to build PHP from SVN."
 exit 1
 fi
 IFS=.; set $ac_version; IFS=' '
-if test "$1" = "2" -a "$2" -lt "60" || test "$1" -lt "2"; then
+if test "$1" = "2" -a "$2" -lt "59" || test "$1" -lt "2"; then
 echo "buildconf: autoconf version $ac_version found."
-echo "           You need autoconf version 2.60 or newer installed"
+echo "           You need autoconf version 2.59 or newer installed"
 echo "           to build PHP from SVN."
 exit 1
 else

configure.in

@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ sinclude(Zend/acinclude.m4)
 dnl Basic autoconf + automake initialization, generation of config.nice.
 dnl -------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-AC_PREREQ(2.60)
+AC_PREREQ(2.59)
 AC_INIT(README.SVN-RULES)
-AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER
+ifdef([AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER], [AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER], [])
 
 PHP_CONFIG_NICE(config.nice)
 

scripts/phpize.m4

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 dnl This file becomes configure.in for self-contained extensions.
 
-AC_PREREQ(2.60)
+AC_PREREQ(2.59)
 AC_INIT(config.m4)
-AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER
+ifdef([AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER], [AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER], [])
 
 PHP_CONFIG_NICE(config.nice)