Re: [QStat-devx] Automake issues

[Ludwig N. <l-...@us...>]

Steven Hartland wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ludwig Nussel" <l-...@us...>
> >>
> >>>>Automake 1.6 was deemed a bad version 1.4, 1.5, 1.8 and 1.9 are
> >>>>the readly supported versions. autogen 1.8 here fails with:
> >>>>./autogen.sh 
> >>>>+ set -e
> >>>>+ aclocal
> >>>>aclocal: not found
> >>
> >>Its installed but your script fails to find it. See the updated script
> >>for info on how to do that.
> >
> >It doesn't try to find anything. It just runs aclocal etc. assuming
> >it's in $PATH. I don't understand why you install those programs
> >with some strange suffix. There should always be a default automake
> >which is actually called 'automake' and not some 'automake-foobar'.
> >What distribution is that?
> 
> You will find due to the broken arse compatibility between versions
> most distribs dont install to none suffixed exe's hence the detect script.
> Here I use FreeBSD various versions.

SUSE always had one automake. Stuff that doesn't work with that has
to be fixed. Both RedHat and Debian install a default 'automake'
because that's what everyone expects. In Debian one can even choose
it using update-alternatives. So I'd say the way FreeBSD does it is
broken. Reminds me of
http://www.livejournal.com/users/udrepper/7326.html

Anyways, let's hope it works the way it is now.

cu
Ludwig

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