Re: [fetchmail-devel] automake migration

[R.O. B. <com...@bl...>]

Hi, dear hackers,

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 22:51:10 +0200,
Matthias Andree <ma...@dt...> wrote:

> I've automake-ified fetchmail, but haven't commited the (huge!) change
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> 
> | The prerequisite packages are:
> | 
> | - GNU autoconf >= 2.54
> | - GNU automake >= 1.7
> | - GNU gettext >= 0.13
> | - GNU m4
> | - bison or yacc
> | - flex or lex
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Hmmpf, does this mean I've to do a reinstall of all those auto* stuff ?

Currently I'm running SuSE 7.3 with

  autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.52
  automake (GNU automake) 1.4-p5
  gettext (GNU gettext) 0.10.37
  GNU m4 1.4o
  GNU Bison version 1.28
  ...

I'm used to NOT reinstall every new distribution release on my boxes.

And I usually grapped every new fetchmail tarball from ESR and could
compile it like a charme although I've somtimes not the cutting edge
of generation software installed.

Question: Isn't it possible to apply the changes in a manner that
enables generation with older auto* tools too ?

THX for Your efforts

Rolf
-- 
Dipl.phys. Rudolf Otto Blättner,
D 91074 Herzogenaurach, Germany.