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Re: automake parallel install
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Steve M. Robbins |
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Re: automake parallel install |
Date: |
Sun, 13 Jan 2002 19:24:36 -0500 |
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On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 11:45:12AM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>
> Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> writes:
> > Maybe `automake' should not be a symlink but a script that
> > select the right automake version to use for a project.
>
> I heard Debian has had poor results with that, but I haven't tried it
> myself. It's probably hard to get right unless you can find some
> really reliable way to pick an automake. It would be neat if so.
Debian has used such a scheme for "autoconf" since about last May. I
was initially horrified at the idea, but it works a lot better than
you might think.
The autoconf script will run version 2.13 unless it can detect some
feature that indicates autoconf 2.5x is used:
* a new option is given, such as --trace, or
* configure.ac is used, or
* AC_PREREQ() specifies version > 2.13
The same wrapper is used for "autoconf", "autoheader", and "autoreconf".
In my experience, the heuristics work decently well. After fixing my
macros, I can always force version 2.50 using AC_PREREQ in
configure.in.
Debian's automake packages don't use this scheme, but I don't see why
it shouldn't work just as well. Automake could, for example, scan the
value of AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to see whether to invoke automake-1.4 or
automake-1.5.
-Steve
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- automake parallel install, Havoc Pennington, 2002/01/09
- Re: automake parallel install, Ralf Corsepius, 2002/01/10
- Re: automake parallel install, Tom Tromey, 2002/01/10
- Re: automake parallel install, Havoc Pennington, 2002/01/11
- Re: automake parallel install, Tom Tromey, 2002/01/13
- Re: automake parallel install, Ralf Corsepius, 2002/01/13
- Re: automake parallel install, Tom Tromey, 2002/01/15
- Re: automake parallel install, Akim Demaille, 2002/01/17
- Re: automake parallel install, Tom Tromey, 2002/01/18
- Re: automake parallel install, Tom Tromey, 2002/01/16
- Re: automake parallel install, Havoc Pennington, 2002/01/16
- Re: automake parallel install, Tom Tromey, 2002/01/16