Am Sun, 3 Jan 2010 11:43:44 -0700 schrieb Michal Jaegermann <[email protected]>:
> On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 11:52:53AM +0200, Timo Korvola wrote: > > On Saturday 02 January 2010 10:24:23 Kim B. Heino wrote: > > > 1) ./autogen.sh > > > - Is this step needed with official tarballs? > > > > I don't know if it is currently (because I just pull stuff from > > Git), but generally it should not be. No Autoconf installation > > should be necessary for compiling distribution tarballs, > > just ./configure && make. > > Maybe it should not be and maybe this is the case here. OTOH I know > that on various occasions when compiling the same sources across > varying distributions that 'autogen.sh' step was crucial due to > differences in autotools versions. In other words 'configure' as > supplied with a tarball was just barfing on me but regenerated was > fine. I do not have any specific examples in this moment. > > Michal In theory you're right, but atleast not for us. The configure scripts of librep/rep-gtk/sawfish work from automake 1.5 - 1.11, as their not using specific stuff newly introduced somewhen, just plain checks. Chris
