Alan Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 15:00 +0000, Steven Shaw wrote: >> Oh. I backed the AC_PREREQ to 2.57 and automake requirement to 1.6.3 >> in Makefile.am. From bootstrap I get: > > Maybe Jim can help here. > >> Thanks for the hand. It's be a few years since I did any serious C/C++ >> development and I didn't have the pleasure of meeting the autotools - >> not from the dev side anyhow. > > I'm new to them also - been living in proprietary software land till > recently. Thanks for your perseverance, I really want to get this all to > the point where it Just Works on any reasonably recent linux distro that > Qpid users are likely to be on.
IMHO, the "it" that should `Just Work' is be the distribution tarball or the per-distro RPM. Anyone who is working as a developer can be expected to run ./configure --prefix=/somewhere && make && make install (once for each of the three tools in question), and then adjust their PATH to include /somewhere/bin at the front.
