Automake 1.9 breakage
Alan Cox
alan at redhat.com
Mon Aug 2 14:34:06 UTC 2004
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 12:40:34AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> A package should *always* call a specific version of automake. If a
> package directly invokes "automake", that's a bug. It should instead
> call automake-1.8, automake-1.4, whatever is known to work.
Most don't bother. Nor can you really blame the package authors since
most of them wrote their configuration stuff without realising a bunch
of nutters would start issuing a zillion differently incompatible autoconf
tool sets with more new syntax bugs than perl
> The automake binaries are versioned for a reason - so installing a new
> version doesn't break builds. Patches to move to a new version should
> be upstream, since they are more likely to be familiar with their build
> system and the effects of new automake versions on their packages.
So you want to end up in the state where CD #2 is "autoconfs" 8) ?
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