<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Bitstream Vera Sans'; font-size:10pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">Hi,<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>On Wednesday 20 May 2009, Prasenjit Kapat wrote:<br>
> I had a quick doubt: Are automake1.9 and autotools-dev needed only<br>
> when compiling from SVN? Are they not needed from compiling from<br>
> 0.4.9x.tar.gz source?<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Yes, that should be correct. Note that the debian package build-depends on autotools-dev for reasons of policy, but that really should not be needed for a regular compilation from source.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>It's probably the one reason that kept the autotools so popular for so long: The general user does not have to install any specific build tools like cmake.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Regards<br>
Thomas</p></body></html>