Re: [PATCH] glib2.0 mini patch works with todays anoncvs

[Ali Akcaagac <ali akcaagac stud fh-wilhelmshaven de>]

On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 21:58, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > no this assumption is wrong. i am author of one of the bigger gnome 2
> > buildscripts around we are able to paralell install vanilla automake
> > 1.4-p6 and automake 1.6.x within the same prefix. please get automake
> > 1.4-p6 from ftp.gnu.org and investigate into the readme and changelog
> > there. please also consult this context.
> 
> Just because GNOME hackers decided to take this approach (and that's what
> your links say), it doesn't make this approach is right for Midnight
> Commander.

no i didn't said that i only replied to your last comment. well it's not
of a big deal at all since i can change it here manually. more important
was to get basic glib 2.0 support into mc :)

> > but recently i got trapped myself by this e.g. i read in the mc
> > changelog that you need at least automake 1.5. i installed automake 1.5
> > specially for mc and mc refused to generate the makefiles because it
> > depends on 1.6 already. so it may be interesting and for sure a good
> > idea to rename it to automake-1.6 at least from a vanilla point of view.
> 
> I just tried automake 1.5 with CVS MC and it did work.  Please report such
> errors.  Don't assume that nobody cares.

strange ? because automake 1.5 cries out at exactly these 2 things. by
only using automake 1.6 it ignores the problem. can someone else please
confirm this ?

AC_INIT([GNU Midnight Commander], [], [mc-devel gnome org])
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(mc, 4.6.0-pre1a)

> Version in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS means minimal version.

doesn't change the fact that automake is called and copies it's missing
files into auxdir before it checks for the automake options :) and once
this is done the pure evil begins specially if you use an older automake
version.

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