Re: Moving to Automake 1.4a

2001-01-13 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 12, 2001, Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I plan to move the Autoconf package to Automake 1.4a. Any problem with that? IIRC, the FSF doesn't recommend requiring unreleased versions of packages in other packages. Of course, it's ok if we use automake 1.4a ourselves, but it's

Moving to Automake 1.4a

2001-01-12 Thread Akim Demaille
I plan to move the Autoconf package to Automake 1.4a. Any problem with that? I'll also provide patches to adjust Automake to configure.ac, and likewise for Libtool.

Re: Moving to Automake 1.4a

2001-01-12 Thread Pavel Roskin
I plan to move the Autoconf package to Automake 1.4a. Any problem with that? I'll also provide patches to adjust Automake to configure.ac, and likewise for Libtool. Why not Automake 1.4b? ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/automake/automake-1.4b.tar.gz Regards, Pavel Roskin

Re: Moving to Automake 1.4a

2001-01-12 Thread Akim Demaille
"Pavel" == Pavel Roskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I plan to move the Autoconf package to Automake 1.4a. Any problem with that? I'll also provide patches to adjust Automake to configure.ac, and likewise for Libtool. Pavel Why not Automake 1.4b? Pavel

Re: Moving to Automake 1.4a

2001-01-12 Thread Earnie Boyd
Akim Demaille wrote: "Pavel" == Pavel Roskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I plan to move the Autoconf package to Automake 1.4a. Any problem with that? I'll also provide patches to adjust Automake to configure.ac, and likewise for Libtool. Pavel Why not Automake 1.4b? Pavel

Re: Moving to Automake 1.4a

2001-01-12 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello, Earnie! IMO, it would be undesirable to have autoconf use a version of automake that isn't a released version. When I was learning automake, autoconf, etc. I went about it by actually using the tools on themselves. Not having a released version of automake would have been a

Re: Moving to Automake 1.4a

2001-01-12 Thread Earnie Boyd
Akim Demaille wrote: "Earnie" == Earnie Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Earnie IMO, it would be undesirable to have autoconf use a version of Earnie automake that isn't a released version. It seems to me that there is still a chance to have an Automake release soon. That would be

Re: Moving to Automake 1.4a

2001-01-12 Thread Earnie Boyd
Pavel Roskin wrote: Hello, Earnie! IMO, it would be undesirable to have autoconf use a version of automake that isn't a released version. When I was learning automake, autoconf, etc. I went about it by actually using the tools on themselves. Not having a released version of

Re: Moving to Automake 1.4a

2001-01-12 Thread Tom Tromey
Earnie IMO, it would be undesirable to have autoconf use a version of Earnie automake that isn't a released version. Akim It seems to me that there is still a chance to have an Automake Akim release soon. That would be nice. We could also do another automake beta release after the features

Re: Moving to Automake 1.4a

2001-01-12 Thread Lars Hecking
I think it is important that automake-using distributions use an actual release and not the cvs automake. I think that some of the free Unix/Linux distros use their own patched version of automake which in turn is based on cvs automake at some more or less random point in time. For my own

Re: Moving to Automake 1.4a

2001-01-12 Thread Pavel Roskin
I guess you are slightly confused. No, I'm not. That's great :-) egcs-update!? What's that? Script developed by GCC developers in the EGCS days to simplify life for those CVS users who didn't have the full list of up-to-date maintainer tools. Now available by running cvs -d

Re: Moving to Automake 1.4a

2001-01-12 Thread Tom Tromey
"Lars" == Lars Hecking [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lars I think that some of the free Unix/Linux distros use their own Lars patched version of automake which in turn is based on cvs automake Lars at some more or less random point in time. Yeah. Red Hat did that. Maybe other distributions