RE: [Freeipmi-devel] 2/18 change - "configure.ac: fix of automake init"

[Cress, Andrew R]

Al/Anand,

RedHat EL 4 has automake 1.9.2, but SLES9 sp1 and RH EL3 u8 have
automake 1.8.
What's the plan to support those?  

Andy 

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Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-devel] 2/18 change - "configure.ac: fix of
automake init"

Ok, lets do that + the tar-ustar option.

Al

> It is OK to make minimum required version as 1.9.
> --
> Anand Babu
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> Albert Chu writes:
>> It should work with automake 1.9, that's what I have.
>>
>> I suppose I can just do ustar internally in our local repo.  In the
>> savannah repo we are close to 99 chars, but the naming of the package
>> keeps it at about 92-93 chars, while the package naming I do
internally
>> sometimes pushes it above 99.
>>
>> Al
>>
>>> Al,
>>> The problem was ustar option was not supported by automake-1.8. If
you
>>> really need that option  we should change minimum required version
of
>>> automake to 1.10.
>>> --
>>> Anand Babu
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>>> Blog [http://ab.freeshell.org]
>>> The GNU Operating System [http://www.gnu.org]
>>>
>>> Albert Chu writes:
>>>> What was the error?  We should work on an alternate solution rather
>>>> than
>>>> just revert to the earlier configure.ac.
>>>>
>>>> Al
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Al,
>>>>>
>>>>> ./autogen.sh failed with your chance.
>>>>>
>>>>> I use
>>>>>
>>>>> autoconf 2.61
>>>>> automake 1.8.5
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Bala
>>>>> ---
>>>>> Free as in freedom
>>>>> http://www.gnu.org/
>>>>>
>>>>>> Bala,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there a reason you reverted my fix to configure.ac from
2/16/07?
>>>>>> Do
>>>>> you guys run an older autoconf version that didn't support the
>>>>> changes
>>>>> I
>>>>> made?  I'm confused.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Al
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Albert Chu
>>>>>> address@hidden
>>>>>> 925-422-5311
>>>>>> Computer Scientist
>>>>>> High Performance Systems Division
>>>>>> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>> High Performance Systems Division
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>


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