On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 19:08, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > For me it is OK to bump the automake requirement for HEAD up to > automake-1.6.3 which is the latest version found in most of the > current Linux distributions.
Ok. > Very few is shipping automake-1.7.X and I am a bit reluctant about > requiring 1.7 until it is more commonly spread. Sure. > However, it should be noted that the most commonly accepted "automake > level" among all the different distributions (Linux, *BSD, Cygin etc) > is still 1.5, with a few still using 1.4.. Well, cygwin is 1.7.2. 1.7 is backward compatible with 1.5. > If upgrading automake, make sure to keep automake-1.5 for Squid-2.5. > This then needs to be reinstalled as /usr/local/bin/automake15. I can't upgrade automake - I don't have access AFAIK. Squid-2.5 builds just fine with a newer automake, there is (IMO) no need to keep 1.5 around. > But why is it that we keep running into automake bugs all the time? > The use of automake is supposed to cause less grief, not more.. Because 1.5 was the first release after a long period of problems, like the transition to autoconf 2.50 and above. The automake maintainers are doing a much better job, and the capabilities continue to improve. Partly it's also due to using 'too recent' features of automake - although please note that the bugs we have hit are actually bugs (that is, automake 1.5 is meant to DoTheRightThing, but Doesn't). Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt>.
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