Re: automake transition

[Alex Graveley <alex ximian com>]

Hi,

So I've been building everything with automake 1.6.1 for a long time
now, and the only packages I can think of off hand that have problems
are audiofile, gstreamer, gst-plugins, monkey-sound, and rhythmbox.  

There are however a lot of makefiles that have to be run a few times
because they die on one-time warnings, usually related to variable
naming.

-Alex

On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 00:37, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I got CVS automake-1.4 as suggested by Tom, installed that and also
> 1.6, then deleted the "automake" and "aclocal" files so I only have 
> automake-1.4 and automake-1.6 executables. I'm now mostly through a
> rebuild without an "automake" executable. The CVS snap of automake
> seems to work fine.
> 
> This involves a lot of trivial autogen.sh changes, of the
> s/automake/automake-1.4/ variety.
> 
> My proposed plan:
> 
>  - We wait for the new automake 1.4 release
>  - I commit my autogen.sh changes to all modules at once 
>    (including libxml2, gtk+, etc.)
>  - We remove the "automake" and "aclocal" executables from the 
>    tinderbox machines and install only -1.4 and -1.6; 
>    it's a bug to refer to unspecified "automake"
>  - Modules on the 2.1.x branch can move to 1.6 any time they 
>    feel like it by changing their autogen.sh script
>  - we change gnome-autogen.sh to 1.6 on the 2.1.x branch as soon as
>    someone makes sure it works
> 
> Havoc
> 
> btw here is a patch that aclocal benefits from: 
> 
> --- /cvs/am-cvs/automake14/aclocal      Wed Jul 24 22:58:19 2002
> +++ /unst/bin/aclocal-1.4       Wed Jul 24 23:55:54 2002
> @@ -415,7 +415,7 @@
>             elsif ($map{$1} ne 'acinclude.m4' || $file eq
> 'acinclude.m4')
>             {
>                 warn "aclocal: $file: $.: duplicated macro \`$1'\n";
> -               $exit_status = 1;
> +               #$exit_status = 1;
>             }
>             print STDERR "Found macro $1 in $file: $.\n" if
> $verbosity;
>         }
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