Re: [Planner Dev] [PATCH]: cleanups

[Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczek rudy mif pg gda pl>]

On Thu, 20 May 2004, lincoln phipps openmutual net wrote:
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> > $ aclocal --print-ac-dir; aclocal-1.7 --print-ac-dir
>
> I checked my system (Mandrake) and its got both packages....
>
> automake-1.4.23p6mdk and automake1.7-1.7.6-1mdk installed.
> This is a parallel install that when I look in the RPM
> comments I see that some time back whoever did the
> packaging had got 1.4 and 1.7 to be in parallel.
>
> Also checking the files provided by the 1.4 package and
> yes there is no aclocal python.m4 file provided this is
> only in my RPM for the 1.7.
>
> The commands.....
> [lincoln penguin lincoln]$ aclocal --print-ac-dir;aclocal-1.7 --print-ac-dir
>
> returns.....
>
> /usr/share/aclocal
> /usr/share/aclocal

This can't work correctly.
aclocal lookup into /usr/share/aclocal-<ver> before /usr/share/aclocal and 
thios allow have installed multiple version of automake/aclocal but if 
core aclocal macros are shared this can be source many other bugs.
In this case seems fix in autogen.sh is workaroud for buggy automake from 
MDK. MDK is widely used and this cause of many reports ..

I can also ask why you are still want use am 1.4 ? Last bunch of packages 
which was require this version was KDE but latest can use also latest
am/ac/lt tools.
If you have installed am 1.4 only because it was installed during 
install time  uninstalling old 1.4 instance of automake will probaly
cure your problems.

kloczek
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