Re: Please fix ORBit dependancies

[Sebastian Wilhelmi <wilhelmi ira uka de>]

Hi, Erik,

I checked in a change to make it work with that versions also, it is a
hack, but much shorter than some nifty comparion things, so it should be
ok.

BTW: For ORBit, the ORBit list <orbit-list@cuc.edu> is a better suited
place for such questions.

Bye,
Sebastian

P.S.: Where did you got automake version 1.4 version from??? I did not
find it even on the ftp server of Tom Tromey:
ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/tromey/.

> Latest ORBit from CVS:
> andersen:/home/andersen/gnome/ORBit % rm -rf .deps */.deps ; ./autogen.sh
> 
> You must have at minimum autoconf version 2.13 installed
> to compile ORBit. Download the appropriate package for
> your distribution, or get the source tarball at
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/
> 
> You must have at minimum automake version 1.3 installed
> to compile ORBit. Download the appropriate package for
> your distribution, or get the source tarball at
> ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/home/tromey/automake-1.3b.tar.gz
> 
> andersen:/home/andersen/gnome/ORBit % autoconf --version
> Autoconf version 2.14
> andersen:/home/andersen/gnome/ORBit % automake --version
> automake (GNU automake) 1.4
> 
> Just sticking in:
>     autoconf --version | grep -q "version 2.13"
>     automake --version | grep -q "1.3"
> etc.  is not the Right Thing.
> 
> For autoconf, just update */configure.in (for those needing it) to
> include:
>     dnl We use some nice new stuff from autoconf 2.13
>     AC_PREREQ(2.13)
> This will halt creation of a configure script when folks run autogen.sh
> 
> For automake, I don't see any built in version checking stuff (patch
> waiting to be made I guess), but something similar could easily be
> written I suppose. Hard coding one and only one ok version is silly.
> It is easy to work around, of course.  Just annoying.
> 
>  -Erik
> 
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