Re: automake transition

[Frédéric Crozat <fcrozat mandrakesoft com>]

Le dim 04/08/2002 à 18:56, Luis Villa a écrit :
> 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.

I think those changes should be done only on HEAD branch, for gnome
2.2..
We really don't want to jeopardize 2.0.1 nor 2.0.2..

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Frédéric Crozat
MandrakeSoft