On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 15:13:48 +0200, Danny Backx wrote:
>I still fail to see why we need to branch. There's not enough people
>using the CVS version to make this an issue, or at least that's my
>opinion.
>
>Others, please express your opinions !
We could perhaps easily create two source releases, one using
new, one old auto*
We don't want other people (auto* authors) to stop
or disturb LessTif development ...?! I won't and can't
upgrade (see below) and refuse to install different versions.
That will cause only additional harm for sure.
>Alexander: exactly what is wrong with the newest versions of the
>auto tools for you ? With which versions and on which platforms ?
Ok, once again:
autoconf fails for ddd, gnuplot, grace (IIRC), etc.
Actually the number posted from "nix" on the list was 20%,
for me it's 50%. This is what I call garbage.
libtool 1.4 requires a macro which autoconf 2.13 doesn't have.
This only happens here on alpha-linux, but recently I only
try i86-linux and DU as alternatives. So actually it fails on
one third of "all tested" systems for me. (the authors even are/were
not aware of this; also they tend to ignore it)
automake 1.5 seems to work with our CVS, though some patches
(got one patch set from Karsten Jensen) will it make it even
more happy perhaps. Major news is that it now at least doesn't
fail when dependencies are being generated. Earliers versions
were doing so, unless you were using gcc.
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Alexander Mai
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