Re: [cp-patches] Patch: automake update

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Michael Koch wrote:
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> Hi list,
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> I have prepared a patch for local use and Mark told me to announce it 
> for discussion. It updates GNU classpath to use the new automake 
> 1.9.0. This gives us a working dist tarball with long paths (> 100 
> characters) with recent versions of tar (tried with 1.13.93). With 
> older automake (1.7.x and 1.8.x) this gave problems with running 
> "make distcheck". With automake 1.9 it works.
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> This patch updates autogen.sh to fail when a not recent enough version 
> of autoconf, automake or libtool is found and automatically runs 
> configure with the given arguments. This is GNOME-like autogen.sh 
> script. This feature can be disabled by setting the 
> AUTOGEN_SUBDIR_MODE=false.The libtool dependency got update to 1.5.0 
> to make it easier to test for it in autogen.sh.
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> What do you think about this patch ? When should we commit it ?

I like the switch to the latest automake. I've switched kaffe over to 
it, and like 1.9. I haven't played with the tar options yet, but I like 
the idea.

Is there some special reason why we're stuck with libtool 1.5.0? Libtool 
is up to 1.5.6 meanwhile, and we've still got some local patches to that 
in the kaffe tree, since we keep getting problems on some platforms ;)

cheers,
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