Re: [Fink-devel] autoconf in fink scripts? (long)

2002-05-29 Thread Martin Costabel
Jeremy Erwin wrote: [] relevant .m4 file to see if there's an error. Here's the autoconf-2.13 version. (/sw/share/autoconf/acspecific.m4) There is no such file in autoconf25. The closest is probably /sw/share/autoconf/autoconf/c.m4 which contains if test -z $CPP; then

Re: [Fink-devel] autoconf in fink scripts? (long)

2002-05-29 Thread Max Horn
At 0:57 Uhr +0200 29.05.2002, Martin Costabel wrote: [...] To continue this thought (proposal, rant?): I sometimes have the feeling that cvs committers are a little too trigger-happy, in that they kill the old version immediately when submitting a new one. It would be useful sometimes to be able

Re: [Fink-devel] autoconf in fink scripts? (long)

2002-05-28 Thread Martin Costabel
Jeremy Erwin wrote: I am in the process of testing a fink port of open dx (version 4.2.0) My port uses automake, so as to keep the patch smaller and easier to debug. What packages will insure that a would be compiler can run aclocal, automake, autoconf and autoheader? I'll give a long

Re: [Fink-devel] autoconf in fink scripts? (long)

2002-05-28 Thread Martin Costabel
Max Horn wrote: [...] automake-1.4-p5-2: Needed for building some packages. Only exists in stable, not in unstable, although this violates fink policy. Nonsense! This is the case for many packages - newer version exists in unstable than in stable in many cases, that's not a violation

Re: [Fink-devel] autoconf in fink scripts? (long)

2002-05-28 Thread Martin Costabel
Martin Costabel wrote: Jeremy Erwin wrote: [] I'm using fink supplied versions of automake-1.5, autoconf-2.13. Yes, I just tried this combination, too, and it compiled completely. So, unless someone has a better idea, perhaps you should require *exactly* these versions in BuildDepends

Re: [Fink-devel] autoconf in fink scripts? (long)

2002-05-28 Thread Jeremy Erwin
On Tuesday, May 28, 2002, at 07:24 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: Martin Costabel wrote: Jeremy Erwin wrote: [] I'm using fink supplied versions of automake-1.5, autoconf-2.13. Yes, I just tried this combination, too, and it compiled completely. So, unless someone has a better idea,

Re: [Fink-devel] autoconf in fink scripts? (long)

2002-05-28 Thread Alexander Strange
On Tuesday, May 28, 2002, at 06:57 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: To continue this thought (proposal, rant?): I sometimes have the feeling that cvs committers are a little too trigger-happy, in that they kill the old version immediately when submitting a new one. It is possible to get it back;