Hello, I've been watching how GNOME 2.0 and 2.2 entered Debian unstable for the last few months, and I have been annoyed at most GNOME packages failing to build on some of our arches, due to outdated build tools. I'm proposing that a few build dependencies are tightened for GNOME 2.4. The problems come from libtool and automake, mostly. Old versions didn't support/know about the mips | mipsel architectures for linux-gnu, so building on these two supported Debian arches failed if we didn't run "libtoolize" on them prior the package build. This is quite easy to fix, we just need to ensure GNOME tarballs are created with the correct versions. For the mips problem, we specifically need: - libtool version 1.4.3 (any other version didn't have support for mips or mipsel). Released on October. - automake version 1.6 and later. Automake 1.5 and 1.4* didn't have support (or had broken support) for mips in config.sub/guess, so they should be avoided too. As a general rule, the timestamp in automake's config.guess shouldn't be older than 2002 (1.6 was released in March 2002). Is anyone against enforcing these versions for GNOME 2.4 packages? Please Cc: replies, I'm not on this list. Thanks, Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ jordi sindominio net jordi debian org http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/~jordi/
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