Use of automake 1.5 and KDE/KOffice

[Stephan Kulow]

On Samstag, 30. November 2002 14:25, Andy Fawcett wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yesterday, support for automake 1.5 was removed from KDE's admin/
> directory.
>
> This is meant for 3.2, but since koffice uses the shared admin/ folder,
> it is not currently possible to build any of KDE/KOffice HEAD on
> FreeBSD. This is because we do not have an automake newer than 1.5 in
> the ports tree :(
>
> Now, as a developer, I can hack a 1.7 into my system with no major
> problem, but it does leave me wondering if some special care is needed
> in the cvs versions of KDE/Koffice because of the differing release
> cycles.
>
> Note, I'm not saying that the change is wrong, after all 1.5 is pretty
> old now, and we really do need a newer automake in FreeBSD anyway.
>

Releases come with Makefile.in files, you don't need automake for anything
else than CVS builds.

Greetings, Stephan