According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Gilles Detillieux writes:
> > That opens up a whole new can of worms. Either we'll have to make
> > distributions ahead of time for specific platforms, or we'll have to
> > require everyone who wants to compile htdig on their system to have the
> > correct version of automake on their system. I don't know how well
> > that would go over. If automake is to be required only for making
> > the distribution, as had been discussed previously, then we want the
> > Makefiles it generates to be as portable as possible.
> >
>
> I can see you don't like automake. I must say that my feelings about
> it are mitigated :-) If it was not so usefull I'd say it requires a lot
> of work to be really usable.
> I'll try to add the --enable-maintainer flag (or something similar) so that
> dependencies are not always activated.
I wouldn't say I don't like automake. I've never used it and I'm not
familiar with it, so I can't really pass that sort of judgement on it.
It is fair to say that I don't like having to install and learn new tools,
unless they can be proven to be invaluable (and even then, I don't like
the learning curve).
However, my main concern here is from a portability and support point
of view. If I got bit by trying to build the latest development version
of ht://Dig, just because I had the wrong version of automake installed,
then I can see the potential of a whole lot of other users getting bit
as well.
I realised the problem was likely due to file mod. times, and that I
likely had an older version of automake, so I probably could have solved
the problem on my own eventually if I had persisted, but if you follow
the questions on the htdig mailing list for a while, you realise that
a lot of users are less persistent and "d�brouillard". You don't want
to throw them too many curve balls, or require a whole lot of additional
tools to build this thing.
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Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766
Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930
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