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On Thursday 14 September 2006 05:18, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> i'm going to be fixing the autoconf/automake wrappers so that they no |
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> longer require all versions of autoconf/automake ... this will resolve the |
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> annoying circular dependency but at the sametime packages need to make sure |
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> that if they use autotools, they pull in the correct version |
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On this note, please try to force automake 1.9 if it's possible, as that's |
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safer with autoconf 2.60 (a part the lots of warnings about datarootdir, I've |
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found a couple of packages that fails to compile when built with autoconf |
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2.60 and automake < 1.9). |
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This way you also use the latest available without requiring old versions of |
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automake. |
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Note that autotools eclass right now simply requires latest version of both |
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automake and autoconf (as it needs autoconf 2.5 series anyway). |
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Mike, will you update autotools eclass as well, to accept WANT_AUTO* before |
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inherit line? It should be trivial, but I'd have to check it first. |
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Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/ |
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Gentoo/Alt lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE |