Automake 1.9 breakage

Steve G linux_4ever at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 2 14:41:51 UTC 2004


>A package should *always* call a specific version of automake.  

I would disagree. That would make migration to a new automake a royal PITA. Out
of the 220 packages I'm watching, only 2 broke. Can you imagine the amount of
maintenance if all 220 packages needed to be updated so any call to automake18
was changed to automake19?

Basically, what I was aiming to do is let anyone building know that there is
known  breakage. Alan put both patches into cvs yesterday, so any further
problems will be in the X windows packages AFAICT. The new packages are publicly
available now.

>The automake binaries are versioned for a reason - so installing a new
>version doesn't break builds.  

They are versioned because the maintainers haven't made the adjustments to use
the newest automake. I use the word maintainers in a broad sense. Both upstream
and within the community. I have made such adjustments to the packages that I'm
maintaining so that I could jettison those obsolete versions. Its not that hard
to migrate the packages. You just need the will to do it. I'll feed some of those
patches to Alan.

-Steve Grubb


		
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