[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 6251] support for automake 1.11

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Wed Feb 24 08:06:51 CET 2010


http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6251

--- Comment #3 from Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> 2010-02-24 07:06:50 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > And shouldn't it be a a good idea to *start* by automake/aclocal (without
> > version). It' usually the most recent available
> 
> Maybe, maybe not.  Automake doesn't guarantee compatibility between minor
> versions, so if automake-1.12 comes out and doesn't work with Xfce, we'd rather
> use something older (assuming 1.12 ends up getting installed as plain
> 'automake').

Hmhm, yeah in case Xfce doesn't work with latest it might make sense to put the
latest working version first. But in other cases, “automake” is the choice of
the user. If he chose to not use the latest one, it might not be a good idea to
override this.

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