On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 8:59 AM, David Seikel <onef...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:06:13 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) > <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:37:45 +1030 Simon Lees <si...@simotek.net> >> said: >> >> > Hi all, >> > Today i noticed the Automake requirements have changed and i was >> > wondering if this requrement change was due to functionality or >> > just because it is what people are testing? The reason i ask is 1 >> > because at work i am running Ubuntu 10.10 and i am not likely to >> > upgrade anytime soon, untill now i have had no problems building >> > and running the latest versions of e17 however it only has automake >> > 1.10.2 I am guessing there are a few other Ubnutu 10.04 (Still in >> > support) and debian people are stuck with a older version. Also our >> > SLES build on OBS only has 1.10.1. I could sit down and figure out >> > why automake doesn't work and try and come up with patches but i am >> > guessing someone on this list can tell me why and there are >> > probably more useful things i could be getting running. >> >> probably is part of automake complaining things are deprecated and us >> adapting... as such if u are a developer - u can upgrade yur >> automake. if you are just building efl (packages) you never need >> automake - ever. or autoconf. you use the tarballs released :) > > Not everyone can "just upgrade automake".
of course, you can, you just install them in a specific directory, like $HOME/opt_autotools, and update PATH when you need them, and that's all. Vincent > There's entirely valid > reasons for people to stick with old yet still supported operating > systems, and entirely valid reasons to not piecemeal upgrade parts of > it. Especially if you are a developer, you might have even more > reasons to stick with old but still supported operating systems that > are as close to stock as you can keep them. Notice Simon's "i am not > likely to upgrade anytime soon", he has an entirely valid reason for > that I'm sure. So while I'm sure Simon has the skill to upgrade his > automake, he might not have any desire to do so. Not to mention the > other people using the other Linux distros he mentions. > > Simon even mentioned that it's his work system that has this problem. > It's very likely that some company provided systems are locked down to > specific versions of development tools for the companies own reasons. > Say for instance to provide a common development environment for all the > developers. He might not be allowed to upgrade automake. > > -- > A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants > coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single > web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, > SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. > Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
