Re: Use of automake & friends vs. just running configure
Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com> writes:
> Except nobody can actually find an example of the good reason anymore,
> which leads me to suspect it's actually bogus. Automake 1.6 through 1.9
> are largely interchangeable. I personally keep 1.4 and 1.9 installed,
> and have no problems.
That may very well be the case. Automake 1.9 does force an Autoconf
update over Automake 1.8, and Autoconf 2.59 is not *completely* compatible
with Autoconf 2.52 and thereabouts, but these are probably unusual enough
that not many people would be bitten by them.
I must admit that much of my leeriness about this is based on experiences
earlier in the 1.x series (1.3, 1.4, 1.5).
> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.9]) or whatever minimum version you've tested it
> with. The rebuild rules will notice you don't have that version, warn
> you that they can't update things, and carry on.
That's a good solution. I didn't realize that they would both not update
anything and carry on.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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