Re: [g-a-devel] Why refer to automake as automake-1.7

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Hi Kieran:

Different versions of automake have small incompatibilities.  Various
GNOME modules require, at this time, different versions of automake, so
you must have more than one version installed to do GNOME builds from
cvs.  Therefore the only way to keep them separate, reliably, is to add
the suffix.

Installing/bootstrapping a GNOME build environment should create the
appropriate links/directories for you.  Sounds like a step got omitted
along the way for you.

- Bill

On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 09:36, Kieran O'Sullivan wrote:
> I have a rather old computer 32 MB RAM and all that so I've got SuSE 6.2
> on it.  Then I wanted to install gnopernicus so I downoladed (using cvs)
> the latest gnome stuff and of course gnopernicus itself.
> Can anyone tell me why automake is referred to in a lot of the scripts
> that run it as automake-1.7?  I have the correct automake but as you would
> suspect it is called automake no "-1.7" at the end.  There are similar
> references to autoconf and aslocal.  This easily solved but very
> infuriating.
> 
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