Re: automake > 1.4 does not work

[Lars Hecking]

Joerg Anders writes:
> Unfortunately I'm not a autoconf/automake guru.
> But I think I can state: automake > 1.4 does not work.
> 
> I can't say exactly what's wrong. But please try to
> use automake 1.6 togehther with the KDE3 default
> admin files. And you'll see: It is impossible.

 Nobody here is going to download KDE3 just to find out. You'll have
 to give a few examples.

> You get a lot of errors. And if you bring it to works
> with some tricks it does a lot of errors  during
> installation. (some pixmaps and other files
> are not installed.)
> 
> First I upgraded from automake 1.5 (which comes
> with SuSE-Linux 8.0) to automake 1.6.
> 
> This was terrible. After that I downgraded
> ti automake 1.4 --> all works

 automake 1.6 requires autoconf 2.52. But from my experience,
 automake 1.4 and 1.5 can be used interchangeably.

 If you change any of the auto* tools, make sure that all auto*
 generated files are rebuilt before first use. The exact options
 may depend on the project directory layout, but something along
 the lines of

 rm -f config.cache config.h
 aclocal -I m4 && autoheader && automake && autoconf

 should work.