Re: Automake requirements for gtk+, glib

["Geoff Buchan" <geoffrey buchan gmail com>]

On 6/16/07, Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com> wrote:

No. automake versions are not compatible.
Simply changing the requirements is not an option.

Thanks... My attempt at a quick hack (simply replacing "1.7" with "1.9" for the version) seemingly could compile gtk, but the make install step failed.

I'm not familiar with the details of automake, but I infer it must have had some incompatible changes somewhere between 1.7 and 1.9. 

Ideally the gtk build could be done with the current version of automake (apparently they're up to 
v1.10 now), but I could certainly see where that might not be too high a priority. It's only a problem if you want to build project X which requires v1.7 and project Y which requires a newer version - then you either need to keep multiple automake versions, or you have to reinstall automake to build one of the projects. How do the gtk+ developers handle this now ? 

Regards,

Geoff