Re: [GNUnet-developers] automake version

[Christian Grothoff]

On Tuesday 01 April 2008, Milan wrote:
> As I have just reinstalled my system, I needed to run ./bootstrap again,
> and to install manually autotools and the like. Tweaking aclocal,
> autoreconf and automake commands, I noticed that with both GNUnet and
> gnunet-gtk, automake-1.10 was working as well as -1.8 that was set as
> required in the README.debian file; so I updated this file accordingly.
>
> In gnunet-gtk though, the ./bootstrap file explicitely sets the automake
> version to 1.8. Removing this so that 1.10 is used was not a problem for
> me. Should I remove these instructions for the file so that the life of
> all future developers (and ours BTW) is made simpler? Or are you aware
> of issues that could be raised by that?

No issues, I just had problems with 1.9 at some point, hence the hard-coding.  
I don't think it is required anymore.

> The autotools part has always been for me the hardest one, thus I hope
> we can make it as easy as possible. ;-)

We should ;-).

Christian