[Uim] autogen.sh

TOKUNAGA Hiroyuki tkng at xem.jp
Sun Sep 11 19:23:59 PDT 2005


On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 11:00:27 +0200
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai at in-nomine.org> wrote:

> [resend due to mailinglist issues]
> 
> Is there a reason for:
> 
> aclocal-1.7 -I m4 \
> [snip]
>   && automake-1.7 --add-missing --foreign --copy \
> 
> aclocal 1.9 and automake 1.9 also work, and these hardcoded values
> will cause me to have to run autogen.sh by hand.
> 
> I don't see much motivation about keeping the hardcoded version
> numbers, someone wants to explain if they're really needed?
> Otherwise I'd propose to strip them.

Because aclocal and automake sometimes doesn't work if their default
version is 1.4. (Though I don't know in the case of 1.6.)

If I remembered correctly, Automake doesn't ensure thier backword
compatibility. Therefore we stick to the 1.7.


Regards,

-- 
TOKUNAGA Hiroyuki
tkng at xem jp



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