Re: [Freeipmi-devel] automake 1.9 requirement

[Anand Babu Periasamy]

Al,
Automake 1.9 as minimal requirement is fairly acceptable. 1.9 was
released in 2004. Both 1.9 and 1.10 are widely available in
most distributions.

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Al Chu wrote:
> I've been re-organizing files for what will eventually become FreeIPMI
> 0.6.0.  The re-organization will likely have files > 99 characters long,
> which requires we init automake with the 'tar-ustar' option in autoconf
> to handle the longer filenames.
>
> I know that a few others had issue with this about a year ago, since
> 'tar-ustar' required atleast automake 1.9.  Since a year has now passed,
> I'm hoping this is no longer an issue.
>
> Will anyone have any issue with this?
>
> Al