Use of automake 1.5 and KDE/KOffice

[Andy Fawcett]

On Saturday 30 November 2002 17:17, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> 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.

I knew there was something I'd overlooked ;)

A.


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