Re: Please fix ORBit dependancies

[Dick Porter <dick acm org>]

On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 11:01:30PM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote:
> Latest ORBit from CVS:
> 
> 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.

Are you sure autoconf 2.13 is fully compatible with 2.12? Ditto with automake
1.4 and 1.3?

>From bitter experience, automake at least is _very_ fragile between versions,
often needing the _exact same patch revision_ as the author's automake to
work with his *.am files.

> 
> 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

??

> 
>  -Erik

- Dick