[Fwd: [ gtkpod-Bugs-2824432 ] gnome-autogen.sh only looks for automake > 1.10]

[Jorg Schuler-2]

Hi everyone,

I've received this bug report via the gtkpod tracker. Maybe someone more
knowledgeable with autogen.sh can help?

Cheers,


JCS.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [ gtkpod-Bugs-2824432 ] gnome-autogen.sh only looks for
automake > 1.10
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:05:17 +0000
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Bugs item #2824432, was opened at 2009-07-20 21:05
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Category: libgpod
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: sluggo (dm9-sluggo)
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Summary: gnome-autogen.sh only looks for automake > 1.10

Initial Comment:
when running gnome-autogen.sh with automake > 1.10 installed it cant find it.

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[Todd Zullinger]

Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Welcome back Jorg ;)

Yes, good to see you Jorg.  Hopefully things are going well in your
part of the world. :)

> Updating gnome-autogen.sh to its latest version might be enough.

Indeed that would work.  One thing to think about before we do this is
that the upstream gnome-autogen.sh from the gnome-common module¹ now
passes -Wno-portability to automake.  This creates a hard requirement
on GNU make.  Does anyone know if we are already doing things that
require GNU make or not?  I'd hate to add a new requirement if we
don't need to.

On the other hand, if we're already incompatible with non-GNU make,
then it will be simpler to sync the gnome-autogen.sh script without
differing from upstream (since the odds of remembering to always strip
the -Wno-portability option when syncing seems low).

¹ http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gnome-common/tree/macros2/gnome-autogen.sh

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[Andrew W. Nosenko]

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 18:41, Todd Zullinger<tmz@...> wrote:
> Christophe Fergeau wrote:
>> Updating gnome-autogen.sh to its latest version might be enough.
>
> Indeed that would work.  One thing to think about before we do this is
> that the upstream gnome-autogen.sh from the gnome-common module¹ now
> passes -Wno-portability to automake.  This creates a hard requirement
> on GNU make.  Does anyone know if we are already doing things that
> require GNU make or not?  I'd hate to add a new requirement if we
> don't need to.

'portablity' warnings category is exactly about opposite: Automake
will warn you if some GNU Make specific construction used.  The same
about other make implementation specific extensions.  In another
words, it doesn't create new dependency on gmake, moreover it allows
you to avoid such dependency to be created accidentally.

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[Andrew W. Nosenko]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 15:00, Andrew W.
Nosenko<andrew.w.nosenko@...> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 18:41, Todd Zullinger<tmz@...> wrote:
>> Christophe Fergeau wrote:
>>> Updating gnome-autogen.sh to its latest version might be enough.
>>
>> Indeed that would work.  One thing to think about before we do this is
>> that the upstream gnome-autogen.sh from the gnome-common module¹ now
>> passes -Wno-portability to automake.  This creates a hard requirement
>> on GNU make.  Does anyone know if we are already doing things that
>> require GNU make or not?  I'd hate to add a new requirement if we
>> don't need to.
>
> 'portablity' warnings category is exactly about opposite: Automake
> will warn you if some GNU Make specific construction used.  The same
> about other make implementation specific extensions.  In another
> words, it doesn't create new dependency on gmake, moreover it allows
> you to avoid such dependency to be created accidentally.
>

Sorry :-(
I'm didn't paid attention on "negation" of option...
They efficiently silenced such portability warnings... :-(

But anyway, while it creates room for inserting GNU Make specific
constructs, it doesn't do it by self.

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