Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
On 12/6/05, Samisa Abeysinghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Given your expertise in the GNU make system, do you have any idea if
we can make our configure.ac work across different versions of
automake/autoconf?
Basically the problem is that PHP uses autoconf 2.13 and automake
1.5 (PHP make system complains if the versions are not 2.13/1.5)
Ours make use of autoconf 2.59 and automake 1.9 (our make system
fails if versions are not 2.59/1.9)
Can we write our configure.ac to work in these different version on
auto tools?
I think the best option would be to find out the least common
denominator between the two different tools combination and remove the
version dependancy _completely_. We don't have to be very much
backword compatible for anything earlier than 2.13/1.5.
What are the reasons to mandate 2.59/1.9?
There was no perticular reason to mandate 2.59/1.9. Those were the
versions on the developers' machines.
We just want to make sure anyone can build the system, irrespective of
the version of auto tools (ideally run ./configure; make; make install;
triple)
How can we find out the least common denominator. Any good references or
guidelines?
Thanks,
Samisa...
Anuradha
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