[Gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 93899] Changed - Prefer versioned automake names

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Changed by hp at redhat.com.

--- shadow/93899	Sun Sep 22 17:36:38 2002
+++ shadow/93899.tmp.27942	Sun Sep 22 17:58:53 2002
@@ -25,6 +25,19 @@
 ------- Additional Comments From thomas at urgent.rug.ac.be  2002-09-22 17:36 -------
 Hm.  Is this to be more in line with gnome, or is it somehow
 considered "better" for some reason ? I'm pretty happy with how it is
 right now, and prefer not to start hard-coding possible values.
 (note that --with-autoconf and --with-automake allow you to select a
 version to use)
+
+------- Additional Comments From hp at redhat.com  2002-09-22 17:58 -------
+It's more in line with gnome, and also better.
+
+You should be hardcoding this, because you do require a particular
+automake version. automake is renamed when it breaks incompatibly. So
+when automake-1.7 appears it won't be compatible, and automake-1.4
+already is not compatible, so you don't want the name "automake" which
+means "any automake" any more than you would write 
+"pkg-config --libs any-gtk" and accept either GTK 1.2 or 2.0.
+
+See also http://pobox.com/~hp/parallel.html
+