KDE CVS: build instructions

[dominique devriese]

On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 08:14:44PM +0200, Matthias Welwarsky wrote:
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> > MULTIPLE VERSIONS
> > =================
> >
> > Installing multiple versions of autoconf/autoheader/automake is easy.
> > For autoconf use:
> > 	./configure --prefix /usr/local/autoconf-2.53
> > 	make install
> > 	ln -s /usr/local/autoconf-2.53/bin/autoconf /usr/bin/autoconf-2.53
> > 	ln -s /usr/local/autoconf-2.53/bin/autoheader /usr/bin/autoheader-2.53
> > 	ln -s /usr/local/autoconf-2.53/bin/autom4te /usr/bin/autom4te-2.53
> >
> > For automake use:
> > 	./configure --prefix /usr/local/automake-1.5
> > 	make install
> > 	ln -s /usr/local/automake-1.5/bin/automake /usr/bin/automake-1.5
> > 	ln -s /usr/local/automake-1.5/bin/aclocal /usr/bin/aclocal-1.5
> >
> 
> With the attached patch to cvs.sh, automake-1.5/auto*-2.53 are found if 
> they're somewhere in your path (not only in /usr/bin), very helpful if you 
> need to install multiple versions and cannot create symlinks in /usr/bin.
> It uses "type -p" to find the path, so if nobody considers this to be a 
> problem I'd like to have this patch in Cvs.

Hi, there are some issues on debian:
woody allows you to install both autoconf2.13 and 2.50 on the same
machine.  This is done by having "autoconf2.13" and "autoconf2.50", 
autoconf itself is a script which somehow finds out which one you need 
(by looking if you have configure.ac or configure.in, by looking if you
have recently introduced command line options etc.)... I don't really know
what the implications of this are for your program. As far as i see, you
at least need to check for autoconf2.50 (no dash) too,
furthermore, your cvs.sh isn't really necessary on debian, so maybe it
would be best to have it turn itself off on woody ?
bye
domi