Re: build systems

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Nov 19, 2007 3:05 PM, Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 02:29:00PM -0500, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> > According to bug 448828
> > <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448828>, it is not a bug.
>
> The tone in that bug is not that nice.
>
> > Note: I disagree with that. And it prevented me from contributing a
> > patch that day.

Well, this is just bullshit. You can a) commit a patch for others to
test - that is still
useful, or b) just install automake-1.7 for yourself. It is not that
hard, really, as
has been shown in this thread repeatedly: ./configure; make; make install
or c)  approach the suse people and ask them how they build their gtk package
without automake-1.7

> Contribute a automake 1.9 patch in a new bug. There is no point in
> rejecting such a valid contribution. This was hinted in the last
> comment.

To be truly valuable, such a patch must come with the necessary
testing on varied systems
and the promise to stay around for sorting out the fallout from build
systems the show up
at the next stable release when the conversion is actually tested widely...

Changing build systems is not something one does for fun and lack of
better things to do...
anyway, you'll be happy to learn that glib trunk has been moved to
automake 1.10 in
the meantime.

Matthias