On Mon, 2015-06-22 at 10:44 -0500, 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.
We *could*; doesn’t necessarily mean 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.
As Kalev says, we should ensure this still builds with various distros. RHEL7 is fine. Debian stable (Jessie) has 1.14. Fedora has had ≥ 1.13 for a long time. Arch has 1.15. FreeBSD has 1.15. So unless anybody objects, I think a hard dependency on automake 1.13 would be fine. Would you mind updating the wiki page to match your suggestions? Probably also makes sense to update https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/ModernAutotools which is a separate, though related, goal. Philip
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