Otavio Salvador wrote: > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Jim Meyering <[email protected]> wrote: >> Otavio Salvador wrote: >> IMHO, upstream should not be beholden to distribution versions >> of automake when they're stuck at 1.10.1 which is over a year old. >> By that argument, depending on which distro you choose, we'd never >> be able to use newer tools. > > We should not be beholden, agreed but please read bellow. > >> Besides, there are several desirable features in automake-1.10b >> for which I intend to switch parted: >> >> silent-rules >> parallel-tests >> dist-xz support >> >> and maybe one or two others, not counting all of the bug fixes. > > Until we add those, there's no need to bump the _requirement_. As > the name suggest it is the version that is _required_ to build, not a > suggested one. > >> If you require to be able to build using some older version of automake, >> you can build from a patched branch or even from a release tarball, >> at which point the version of automake doesn't even matter. >> >> Developers can be expected to be able to install a recent automake, >> even from git, although that would be exceptional. > > Sure but I disagree with requiring it for a gratious reason. Once > we start to use the new features I fully agree but until it is done > I think we ought to stay with the last compatible one.
When I raised the requirement to 1.10a, it was most certainly not a gratuitous change. Even back when I did that, there had been enough improvements in automake to make it worthwhile. I've just pushed this change: From 40d53c44069e85cec28ad886749d3335e42cb47f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 22:40:23 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] build-from-git: depend on automake-1.10b * bootstrap.conf (buildreq): Note the automake-1.10b requirement. * configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Enable new automake options: dist-xz, color-tests, parallel-tests, silent-rules. --- bootstrap.conf | 2 +- configure.ac | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/bootstrap.conf b/bootstrap.conf index 760da9f..e2b7225 100644 --- a/bootstrap.conf +++ b/bootstrap.conf @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ mkdir -p gnulib-tests # Build prerequisites buildreq="\ autoconf 2.61 -automake 1.10 +automake 1.10b autopoint - gettext - git 1.4.4 diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 65ddedc..5f3f7d9 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ dnl GNU Parted - a library and front end for manipulation hard disk partitions -dnl Copyright (C) 1998-2002, 2005-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +dnl Copyright (C) 1998-2002, 2005-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. dnl dnl This file may be modified and/or distributed without restriction. @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ AC_SUBST([LT_CURRENT]) AC_SUBST([LT_REVISION]) AC_SUBST([LT_AGE]) -AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.10 dist-bzip2]) +AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.10b dist-xz color-tests parallel-tests silent-rules]) AC_CANONICAL_HOST case "$host_os" in -- 1.6.2.rc1.285.gc5f54 _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
