Re: more build sherrif-ery (and a touch of auto*)



On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 01:21:27PM -0500, Luis Villa wrote:
> > 2004-11-09  Jordi Mallach  <jordi sindominio net>
> > 
> >         * gnome-autogen.sh: Call all the bootstrap programs (libtoolize,
> >         intltoolize, gtkdocize, automake) using --force and --copy
> >         consistently.
> So what do we do about this? Is this the point where we finally force
> everything to dump automake 1.4? Or do we revert this?

jamesh and I overlooked that automake1.4 didn't have a --force (instead,
it has a --no-force or something similar). I checked in an emergency
workaround so that if gnome-autogen.sh is configured to use
automake-1.4, it won't use --force.

Still, I think it's about time we start moving the gnome modules to
autotool setups that aren't from the paleolithic. In most cases, there
won't be problems at all, and in the cases where only automake1.4 works
well, we should put some time into fixing it for at least automake1.7.

I'd be glad to help a bit with this, if we decide it's doable. This same
issue was brought up before back in the GNOME 2.3 days...

Jordi
[please cc: me, I don't follow desktop-devel directly!]
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