Re: Death of gnome-common

[Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org>]

On Mon, 2015-06-22 at 16:36 +0100, Philip Withnall wrote:
> Do we require automake 1.13 though?

Looks like it was released January 1, 2013... so we should.

>  Automake 2.0 isn’t out yet (though
> it looks cool), so I’d be tempted to leave in the ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS
> recommendation for backwards compatibility until automake 2.0 is
> released, and then bump everyone’s dependency to automake 1.13 and 
> drop
> use of ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS.
>
> Unless you think automake 2.0 is being released imminently, and we
> should instead be adding a hard dependency on automake 1.13 and using
> AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS to begin with?

Automake 2.0 is supposed to be released later this year, and automake
1.13 has been around for a while, so I would definitely go straight to
AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS.