On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Jim Meyering <[email protected]> wrote: > Otavio Salvador wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Curtis Gedak <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Recently I acquired the latest GIT repository for parted (1.8.8.1.115-d53a) >>> and have discovered a problem with building the program. >>> >>> The problem is that an 'automake' version >= 1.10a is required. I am using >>> 1.10.1, which I believe would be >= 1.10a. > > No. 1.10.1 is *older* than 1.10a. > And automake-1.10b was recently released, which I consider to be > stable enough that I used it to bootstrap the stable release > of upstream coreutils-7.2.
I see but while I also think we should stay up to date with the development environment I think we should also avoid bumping a version requirement without a very good reason. >> I've pushed a change to require 1.10 only since 1.10a was an alpha >> version of it. > > It would be better to encourage developers to use a newer version > of automake, since what is now called 1.10b appears to be quite > close to what automake-1.11 will be. That blocks parted to be build with current distribution versions as for example the Debian one. Without a very good reason for it, I'm opposed to it. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: [email protected] http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
