Re: why only automake-1.7

[Halton Huo <Halton Huo Sun COM>]

That sounds reasonable.
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 14:56 +0200, Paul Chitescu wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Automake and autoconf aren't fully backwards compatible so it makes sense 
> to require a specific version. It may work with other versions too but 
> it's impossible to guarantee.
> 
> On the other hand you can have multiple versions installed. There is a 
> generic automake wrapper that will try to call the best matching version 
> (usually the newest one). But if you run automake-xyz directy you will get 
> that specific version.
> 
> See if your operating system and distribution provides a package for 
> automake-1.7 and install that.
> 
> Regards,
> Paul Chitescu
> 
> 
> On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Halton Huo wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm trying to build gtk from trunk code. found it only allows
> > automake-1.7, could somebody tell me why? I have automake-1.10
> > installed.
> >
> > $./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
> > ./autogen.sh: automake-1.7: not found
> >
> > You must have automake 1.7.x installed to compile Gtk+.
> > Install the appropriate package for your distribution,
> > or get the source tarball at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Halton.
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