Re: What Automake are we using?

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Pavel" == Pavel Roskin <address@hidden> writes:

Pavel> Hello!  What version of Automake are we using to rebuild
Pavel> Makefile.in's?

Pavel> It must be a modified version since the stock Automake
Pavel> hardcodes "gtar" and has a bug in the "distdir" target.

I use ``stock'' Automake 1.4 from Debian, i.e.,

| automake (1.4-8) frozen unstable; urgency=low
| 
|   * Changed doc-base section to Apps/programming from devel (closes: #59876)
| 
|  -- Kevin Dalley <address@hidden>  Sat, 11 Mar 2000 01:22:54 -0800
| 
| automake (1.4-7) unstable frozen; urgency=low
| 
|   * debian/rules: changed configure for better use of mandir and infodir
|   * corrected postrm to remove appropriate info file
|   * updated copyright to show new location of copyright file
|   * updated Standards-Version to 3.1.1.0
| 
|  -- Kevin Dalley <address@hidden>  Mon, 14 Feb 2000 00:08:40 -0800
| 
| automake (1.4-6) unstable; urgency=low
| 
|   * add doc-base
| 
|  -- Kevin Dalley <address@hidden>  Sun,  7 Nov 1999 21:20:48 -0800
| 
| automake (1.4-5) unstable; urgency=low
| 
|   * add postrm to remove entry in info page
|   * fixed problem with EXTRA_DIST including a directory which is not
|     installed (closes: #39436).
|   * fixed problem with incorrect error message when running "automake
|     --verbose --copy --add-missing --foreign" (closes: #46206).
| 
|  -- Kevin Dalley <address@hidden>  Sun, 31 Oct 1999 07:32:56 -0800
| 
| automake (1.4-4) unstable; urgency=low
| 
|   * fixed problem with installation of info files (closes: #48757)
| 
|  -- Kevin Dalley <address@hidden>  Sat, 30 Oct 1999 17:00:59 -0700
| 
| automake (1.4-3) unstable; urgency=low
| 
|   * Do not install INSTALL (closes: #36548).
|   * updated config.{guess,sub} from automake cvs (closes: #48131).
|   * update to Standards-Version 2.5.0.0
| 
|  -- Kevin Dalley <address@hidden>  Sat, 30 Oct 1999 10:57:06 -0700
| 
| automake (1.4-2) unstable; urgency=low
| 
|   * This patch allows the proper use and detection of alphapca56
|     machines.  Debian Alpha needs this.  (fixes bug #32390).
| 
|  -- Kevin Dalley <address@hidden>  Sat, 30 Jan 1999 14:49:29 -0800
| 
| automake (1.4-1) unstable; urgency=low
| 
|   * first release of automake-1.4, which includes support for latest
|     autoconf, fixes a number of bugs
| 
|  -- Kevin Dalley <address@hidden>  Sat, 16 Jan 1999 14:26:53 -0800


Pavel> Shouldn't we have a HACKING file?

I don't think so, but if you think we should, go ahead.

There is one thing you must know: using Automake > 1.4 will break the
test suite.  See the comments in tests/Makefile.am for an
explanation.  I have not tried to set up an alternate means to build
macros.m4.

In fact, we should go back to the previous implementation which used
egrep with multiple -e, but ship macros.m4 to avoid losing as we did
the first time.  I'll take care of this (unless you beat me :).

        Akim