Re: proposed gnome-common changes

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Dan Winship wrote:

> > With the changes, it is possible to greatly simplify the module specific 
> > autogen.sh too.  A typical one might look like this:
> > ---- Cut Here ----
> > #!/bin/sh
> > srcdir=`basename $0`
> > [ -z "$srcdir" ] && srcdir=.
> >
> > PKG_NAME=mypackage
> > REQUIRED_AUTOMAKE_VERSION=1.7
> >    
>
> We really ought to change the default REQUIRED_AUTOMAKE_VERSION. Using
> 1.4 for a default (and not accepting any other) is really annoying.
>  
Well, if anyone wants the default changed, it will be necessary to go 
through all automake-1.4 using packages and add a 
REQUIRED_AUTOMAKE_VERSION line.

The default value for the environment variable was set at 1.4 so as to 
not break existing packages -- before hand, it wasn't possible to use a 
modern version of automake with the common autogen script.

I wouldn't mind getting to a stage where people didn't need to install 
Automake versions less than 1.7 (which is what GTK requires), but it'd 
take a fair bit of work to update the remaining packages.

James.

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