Re: [Tracker] Bug 511752 -- Build fixes for Maemo platform

["Michael Biebl" <mbiebl gmail com>]

2008/1/24, Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>:
> Michael Biebl wrote:
> > 2008/1/24, Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>:
> > > Michael Biebl wrote:
> > > > 2008/1/24, Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > We have had some build issues trying to get tracker going for the Maemo
> > > > > platform. This patch fixes the issue by depending on autoconf 2.59
> > > > > (instead of 2.59c) and automake 1.9 (instead of 1.7).
> > > > Why is depending on autoconf 2.59c a bug?
> > > We don't use that version, I don't know many projects that do either TBH.
> >
> > Well, this is obviously only a minimum-required version. I currently
> > use autoconf 2.61.
> > IIRC we added this minimum required version, because in 2.59c some gnu
> > standard dirs, like datadir or docdir got added/redefined.
> > That's why I initially thought, that lowering it to 2.59 might be problematic.
> > It could be though, that my memory doesn't serve me well ;-)
>
> OK, When I spoke to Jamie he couldn't recall why we had a 2.59c
> dependency. We assumed it was good old cut & paste :)
>
> Do you know what it got changed to? They both exist in the applications
> I have that use this version. The datadir for 2.59 (as I use in other
> projects) points to $prefix/share. As for docdir, that's just
> $prefix/share/doc/$package-tarname. Are these any different?
>
> It seems to work just as well with the patch, thought I better check
> here too ;)

I don't have autoconf 2.59 around anymore. So if you say, you tested
it, it's fine with me.
It's actually not that much of an issue, as Jamie, who creates the
official tarballs, uses autoconf 2.61.

Cheers,
Michael

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