On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Guido Trotter <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2.2.0 was built with old autotools, and it's incompatible with Python
> 2.6. Rebuilding with a newer autotools version fixes this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <[email protected]>
And of course I was making an actual tarball with this patch and had a
typo. Interdiff:
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index de76bb3..84f64c6 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
m4_define([gnt_version_major], [2])
m4_define([gnt_version_minor], [2])
m4_define([gnt_version_revision], [0])
-m4_define([gnt_version_suffix], [1])
+m4_define([gnt_version_suffix], [.1])
m4_define([gnt_version_full],
m4_format([%d.%d.%d%s],
gnt_version_major, gnt_version_minor,
> ---
> Since:
>
> a) We released 2.2.0 already (and replacing it would be bad)
> b) 2.2.0 was built with a broken autotools, and doesn't work with python 2.6
> c) stable-2.2 has already been forwarded to 2.2.1~rc0
>
> I propose releasing 2.2.0.1 as "just" a tag, with the following changes on
> top of 2.2.0.
> No code changes needed, just NEWS and configure.ac update, and a re-release.
> We'll later merge the tag in the stable-2.2 release.
>
> The proper fix for 2.2.1 on will be to fail on autogen.sh if the autotools
> version is older than a certain version.
> (will send that patch next week).
>
> NEWS | 8 ++++++++
> configure.ac | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index d5d3158..75f916e 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
> News
> ====
>
> +Version 2.2.0.1
> +---------------
> +
> +*(Released Fri, 8 Oct 2010)*
> +
> +- Rebuild with a newer autotools version, to fix python 2.6 compatibility
> +
> +
> Version 2.2.0
> -------------
>
> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
> index 3afaa27..de76bb3 100644
> --- a/configure.ac
> +++ b/configure.ac
> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
> m4_define([gnt_version_major], [2])
> m4_define([gnt_version_minor], [2])
> m4_define([gnt_version_revision], [0])
> -m4_define([gnt_version_suffix], [])
> +m4_define([gnt_version_suffix], [1])
> m4_define([gnt_version_full],
> m4_format([%d.%d.%d%s],
> gnt_version_major, gnt_version_minor,
> --
> 1.7.1
>
>
