aclocal and automake versions

[Kevin Gilbert]

Hi,

I've been using KDevelop to develop packages for release via kde-apps.org. With one of these I've had reports of my package failing to build (from source) on certain systems. The following is one bug report that I've received.

"During the "make" step of the installation I've got an error about aclocal-1.6 and automake-1.6 because I have the 1.9 versions. I solved it by creating two symbolic links to aclocal-1.9 and automake-1.9 called aclocal-1.6 and automake-1.6.

Maybe you should modify makefile in order to make it search the right version of the two files."

When I inspect my system I get the following:

$ aclocal --version
aclocal (GNU automake) 1.9.6
Written by Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat.com>

Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

$ automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.9.6
Written by Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat.com>.

Copyright 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

My questions are: Why does KDevelop insist on using aclocal-1.6 and automake-1.6 when later versions exist on the local machine? How can I force KDevelop to produce config files that just use alocal and automake without any version specifiers?

Cheers,

Kevin

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