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Re: nautilus FTBFS on powerpc: automake1.5



* Matt Brubeck (mbrubeck@cs.hmc.edu) wrote:
> On Apr 12, Eric Dorland wrote:
> 
> > Well if you're running automake yourself then you should build depend
> > on it. But you shouldn't run it yourself if you can avoid it.
> 
> The exact situation is that nautilus build-depends on gnome-common,
> which depends on automaken.  Should gnome-common depend on a specific
> automake package instead of automaken?

Ahh, well it's a bit hard to know. Does most of gnome still use
automake 1.4? A better dependency would probably be automake1.4 | automaken
 
> > Build-Depend on whatever automake nautilus upstream uses (probably
> > automake1.4 or automake1.7).
> 
> Nautilus builds correctly with automake1.4.
> 
> > Don't use automake1.5, it sucks, and hopefully I'll get off my duff
> > and get it removed from the archive soon.
> 
> Good to hear that.

Yeah, what I should really do is beat up automake upstream for making
all these packages necessary, but what are you gonna do? :-D

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