Eivind Eriksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> Sh*t! I didn't know. I've been using them on a lot of packages and
> own software. Where can I read more about these incompatibilities?
autoconf: many things are not supported anymore but actually widely used
in configure.in scripts lying all around the distro, such as
AC_TRY_RUN_NATIVE for example
automake: they now use a dependency calculator (depcomp) to get rid of
require on gnu make, but it seems to change/break a few things. First
tests showed that existing running configure.in/Makefile.am have many
errors running with the new automake, so as we were close to the 8.1 (IIRC
that was 1-2 weeks ago) it was postponed.
Honestly I doubt the will switch entirely to autoconf-2.5x real soon since
there are many incompat on configure.in and that authors of software are
(mostly) happy with existing configure scripts. What is probable is that
we'll have coexisting autoconf-2.13 and 2.5x, with a way to call one or
another.
For automake, I didn't work enough on it to have a clear view of the
situation.
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Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
