Re: Automake requirements for gtk+, glib

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Daniel Macks wrote:

> 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.
>
> Following up to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448828
> on-list because it's a developers'/multiproduct issue apparently,
> is there interest in getting gtk+ and glib clean for automake1.9?
> Should "we" (random contributors) consider submitting patches to
> bring things up to modern am standards, or is there some admin
> or policy or developers' reason/consensus to keep at the existing
> old am version?

no, i'm not aware of a consensus against automake-1.9, and that can
probably be reasonably be expected by most developer systems these
days. the same cannot be said of atuomake-1.10 though, so submitting
patches that either upgrade our Makefiles to 1.9 or better yet, make
them work with 1.7 *and* 1.9 would probably be the right way to go
abnout such a change. in any case, note that an automake upgrade is
rather unlikely to happen soon without patch submissions.

> dan

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