From: <bug...@wi...> - 2002-09-22 21:57:22
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Please do not reply to this email- if you want to comment on the bug, go to the URL shown below and enter your comments there. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93899 Changed by hp...@re.... --- shadow/93899 Sun Sep 22 17:36:38 2002 +++ shadow/93899.tmp.27942 Sun Sep 22 17:58:53 2002 @@ -25,6 +25,19 @@ ------- Additional Comments From th...@ur... 2002-09-22 17:36 ------- Hm. Is this to be more in line with gnome, or is it somehow considered "better" for some reason ? I'm pretty happy with how it is right now, and prefer not to start hard-coding possible values. (note that --with-autoconf and --with-automake allow you to select a version to use) + +------- Additional Comments From hp...@re... 2002-09-22 17:58 ------- +It's more in line with gnome, and also better. + +You should be hardcoding this, because you do require a particular +automake version. automake is renamed when it breaks incompatibly. So +when automake-1.7 appears it won't be compatible, and automake-1.4 +already is not compatible, so you don't want the name "automake" which +means "any automake" any more than you would write +"pkg-config --libs any-gtk" and accept either GTK 1.2 or 2.0. + +See also http://pobox.com/~hp/parallel.html + |