Re: Death of gnome-common

[Kalev Lember <kalevlember gmail com>]

On 06/22/2015 05:44 PM, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-06-22 at 16:36 +0100, Philip Withnall wrote:
> > Do we require automake 1.13 though?
>
> Looks like it was released January 1, 2013... so we should.
>
> >  Automake 2.0 isn’t out yet (though
> > it looks cool), so I’d be tempted to leave in the ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS
> > recommendation for backwards compatibility until automake 2.0 is
> > released, and then bump everyone’s dependency to automake 1.13 and 
> > drop
> > use of ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS.
> >
> > Unless you think automake 2.0 is being released imminently, and we
> > should instead be adding a hard dependency on automake 1.13 and using
> > AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS to begin with?
>
> Automake 2.0 is supposed to be released later this year, and automake
> 1.13 has been around for a while, so I would definitely go straight to
> AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS.

I would personally like to keep GNOME git building with the toolchain
that's in RHEL 7. It's automake 1.13.4 there though, so no problem with
making it a hard dep :)

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Kalev