Re: auto-tools [was: Re: [E-devel] [PATCH] imlib2 automake 1.6 compatibilty]

[Boris B. <bo...@ic...>]

On 08.04.2002, Michael Thalmann created this extraordinary piece of literature, which I will thankfully quote in the following:
> Hi all
> 
> We had a major discussion about the whole auto*
> stuff ond irc recently.
> 
> The developers agreed on having all the same
> versions of automake/autoconf/libtool to avoid
> any more problems and misunderstandings.
> 
> The standarts for these tools will be:
>   automake version 1.5
Why 1.5 ? We are using 1.4 atm and many other projects use that version, too.
With 1.4 many ppl (like me) could use only one version of automake, with 1.5
I would need two installed. Is there a good reason to use 1.5 ?
>   autoconf version 2.52
>   libtool  version 1.4
> 
> This is the only way to guarantee that the cvs
> tree(s) will build.
> 
> For developers using Solaris are all the required
> versions available from sunfreeware.com and Debian
> users can simply do an 'apt-get install automake1.5'
> to get the required version automake. I am sure 
> for rpm based distribution are packages available 
> as well.
> 
> autoconf is anyway the right version on debian (at 
> least on 3.0) - don't trust 'autoconf --version', 
> they are using a wrapper script. If you want to be
> sure, invoke autoconf2.50 and you'll end up with
> version 2.52.
> 
> As soon as e17 is going public we are going, as 
> Till said (and I agree) to add the configure to
> cvs to simplify to process.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
> 
> 
> PS. the patch from me at the beginning of this
> thread is not going into cvs as it is, because
> it is incombatible with automake 1.5.
> 
> -- 
> Michael Thalmann <th...@lm...>
> http://tha.lmann.ch/me.shtml  -- for gpg public key and geekcode
> 
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I agree to everything, but the automake version.

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