On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 10:46:20AM -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > --- Brooks Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 01:02:19AM -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > today I tried to build from the CVS tree. So I followed the > > > README.CVSusers file and tried "./bootstrap". Results are not > > really > > > encouraging :-( All versions of required tools (automake, autoconf, > > > libtool) are higher than stated in the file. > > > > > > It seems that the problem start with the fact that no Makefile in > > in > > > the toplevel directory to perform the "make distclean". > > > > > > Any ideas? How does one build the tarball from CVS? > > > > The autotools are not backwards comptable. You need to run the > > versions specified in the README.CVSusers file. I've just committed > > a > > small change to bootstrap which allows you to install the necessicary > > autotools with a prefix of ../autotools (relative to the monitor-core > > directory). I've been using this for quite some time. > > > Hi Brooks, > > in that case, the README.CVSusers is inexact. It says "at least". In > any case, after doing a complete "cvs update -dP" my problems went > away. It turned out that I never used "-dP" before and therefore missed > a lot of newly created directories.
As a rule you you can use autotool release where the first two numbers are the same and the third digit is the same or larger. Releases with different second numbers usually contain in incompatibilities though not all input files are effected. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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