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Re: Use of automake & friends vs. just running configure



On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 20:49 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

> 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.
> 
You can force use of the later version with AC_PREREQ in this case ...
the rebuild rules are intelligent enough to catch that and will just
warn that they couldn't update configure.

Scott
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