Re: Please fix ORBit dependancies

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik pobox com>]

On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Dick Porter wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 11:01:30PM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > Latest ORBit from CVS:
> > 
> > andersen:/home/andersen/gnome/ORBit % autoconf --version
> > Autoconf version 2.14
> > andersen:/home/andersen/gnome/ORBit % automake --version
> > automake (GNU automake) 1.4
> > 
> > Just sticking in:
> >     autoconf --version | grep -q "version 2.13"
> >     automake --version | grep -q "1.3"
> > etc.  is not the Right Thing.
> 
> Are you sure autoconf 2.13 is fully compatible with 2.12? Ditto with automake
> 1.4 and 1.3?

It should be; if it is not, please post so we can fix it.  :)


> >From bitter experience, automake at least is _very_ fragile between versions,
> often needing the _exact same patch revision_ as the author's automake to
> work with his *.am files.
> 
> > 
> > For autoconf, just update */configure.in (for those needing it) to
> > include:
> >     dnl We use some nice new stuff from autoconf 2.13
> >     AC_PREREQ(2.13)
> > This will halt creation of a configure script when folks run autogen.sh
> 
> ??

There doesn't seem to be anything in configure.in that requires 2.13,
but I only gave it a quick glance...

	Jeff