Re: Automake requirements for gtk+, glib

[Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere teaser fr>]

Geoff Buchan wrote:
> I was trying to build gtk+ and glib from the trunk subversion sources, but
> autogen.sh complains about wanting version 1.7.x of automake. I now have
> automake v1.9.6
> installed, so the default script was actually requiring me to use a much
> older version. Should it really depend on the older version ?
> 
> I just changed my local autogen.sh to require 1.9.x instead of 1.7.x, and
> the build seems to be working fine now (it's still compiling; I'm building
> on a slow laptop). Should a patch updating this be added to subversion ?

See bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448828

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