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Re: Will Automake 1.5 be compatible with 1.4-p4 ?


From: Tom Tromey
Subject: Re: Will Automake 1.5 be compatible with 1.4-p4 ?
Date: 17 Jul 2001 00:02:58 -0600

>>>>> ">" == =?iso-8859-1?B?RnLpZOlyaWMgTC4gVy4=?= Meunier <iso-8859-1> writes:

>> Hi. I'd like to know if Automake 1.5 will be compatible with
>> 1.4-p4, so I don't need to mantain 2 copies.

We've tried to make it compatible.  However, I'm sure there are ways
in which it is not.  We don't have a list of those :-(.
This release is pretty much of a disaster, due to bad planning.

>> If not, what'd be the right procedure to maintain both ?

I build different versions with different values of --prefix.
Then I set my PATH correctly depending on what I'm working on.

Tom



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