Re: plan to drop automake-1.6 from jhbuild

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

On 01/09/04 16:58, Martin Waitz wrote:

> hi :)
>
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 03:52:07PM +0800, James Henstridge wrote:
>  
>
> > The gnome-autogen.sh script might be suitable for distributing with 
> > glib.  I doubt we would be able to get it included with automake or 
> > autoconf, since they seem to recommend using "autoreconf" instead (which 
> > doesn't do everything that gnome-autogen.sh does).
> >    
>
> how much is it doing more?
> perhaps they would include a patch that enhances autoreconf?
>  
Off the top of my head, there are:

  1. support version checks on tools and picking between multiple
     installed versions of automake
  2. support for intltool, gtk-doc, glib-gettextize, and a few other
     gnome specific things.

I don't know whether they would be interested in the Gnome specific bits 
or not.  The other reason for using something instead of (or in addition 
to) autoreconf is the time between autoconf releases.  Autoconf-2.59 was 
released more than 8 months ago, while the last change to gnome-common 
was a lot more recent ...

James.

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