Re: automake transition

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Sun, 2002-08-04 at 12:53, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes: 
> > This involves a lot of trivial autogen.sh changes, of the
> > s/automake/automake-1.4/ variety.
> > 
> > My proposed plan:
> > 
> >  - We wait for the new automake 1.4 release
> >  - I commit my autogen.sh changes to all modules at once 
> >    (including libxml2, gtk+, etc.)
> >  - We remove the "automake" and "aclocal" executables from the 
> >    tinderbox machines and install only -1.4 and -1.6; 
> >    it's a bug to refer to unspecified "automake"
> >  - Modules on the 2.1.x branch can move to 1.6 any time they 
> >    feel like it by changing their autogen.sh script
> >  - we change gnome-autogen.sh to 1.6 on the 2.1.x branch as soon as
> >    someone makes sure it works
> > 
> 
> My machine with these autogen.sh changes has been off the net for a
> week or two, but is supposed to get reconnected tomorrow.
> 
> The new automake 1.4 is out; so I'm planning to go ahead and commit
> sometime this week if I get a chance. At that point, if you don't have
> the latest automake 1.4 release, you won't be able to build.  So, get
> the latest automake.
> 
> If there are objections to committing the autogen changes, please
> raise them really quickly.

Please don't do this until 2.0.1 is released; I don't want to see this
change have even the slightest chance of delaying the release.

Luis