Nobody likes to mess with the auto* tools. How about if we put together a separate small "toolchain" package that developers can install, which contains versions of the auto* tools that can be installed in an non-intrusive location. We'd release a new toolchain tarball periodically.
Then anybody would be able to update the configure scripts. A more controversial move would be to remove the autogenerated bits from CVS - then people building from CVS would be forced to use autogen.sh and the toolchain. I'm interested in what CVS users think about that. I think we could meet the needs of casual CVS users by just doing more frequent releases. Personally, I think we should continue to check in the autogenerated bits (eg. configure and the Makefile.in's) for the time being. Cheers, - Jim > Hi, > I'd like to do another round of asking who's using > what version of auto* tools, and if upgrading kaffe to > use the latest versions would be desirable or cause > problems. See this thread for the last discussion of > the issues involved: > http://www.kaffe.org/pipermail/kaffe/2002-December/028418.html > I'd like to raise the discussion again, because > a) Pat has 'leaped ahead' of automake 1.4 and autoconf > 2.13 on his system. > b) Dan has been using latest auto* tools for a while > (and libtool from CVS) without much problems. > c) Tim doesn't like to mess with auto* tools :) > d) I'd prefer to use the latest & greatest autotools > for a few reasons, one of them being able to merge > Dan's libtool-from-CVS patch. > I've CC:ed Pat, Tim and Dan because they've sent in > patches for the build system recently, but I'd like to > hear everyone else's opinion, too. > best regards, > dalibor topic > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > kaffe mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe _______________________________________________ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe
