Re: Automake requirements for gtk+, glib

["Felix Rabe (public)" <public felixrabe textdriven com>]

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Hi,

Geoff Buchan wrote:
> 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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automake - last paragraph before "Contents".

> 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.

Keeping multiple automake versions installed is widespread practice.

Greetings,
Felix
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