According to Jim Cole: > Hi - As someone already mentioned with regard to their Red Hat install, > the configuration changes to the 3.2 code base require auto* tools more > recent than those provided with the distribution. The same is true for > OS X, which currently provides autoconf 2.52 and automake 1.6.1. It > looks like the minimum requirements are currently autoconf 2.54 and > automake 1.7. > > For the time being at least, I am unable to fully test the changes. It > appears that the required version of automake is even ahead of what is > available via fink, so it would have to be installed manually. Not to > say that installing it manually is any great chore, but I do wonder if > we are getting ahead of ourselves here. If upgrading auto* tools is > going to become a prerequisite for the typical ht://Dig install, that > is probably a bad thing. > > Are the relevant enhancements only available via the newer auto* tools?
I don't know if it's still the case now, but in the past the auto* tools were only needed when you needed to develop/update the Makefiles, and weren't needed just to compile the code. Now I think that with the snapshots, the modtimes of the files aren't always set correctly so make thinks it needs to rerun some of the auto* tools. If things are set up correctly, you should normally be able to compile and install an htdig distribution without using the auto* tools, unless the packaged Makefiles don't work on your system. It may be, though, that with the new auto* tools the Makefiles end up being more system dependent than in the past. Can anyone with more automake/autoconf experience comment on the feasibility of this? It would be nice if installation of ht://Dig continued not to require the auto* tools. -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/ Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ ht://Dig Developer mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List information (subscribe/unsubscribe, etc.) https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-dev
