Re: [Chicken-hackers] Build problems

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Tony Sidaway wrote:
> I'm not sure where the automake warning would have appeared.  My email
> contained the full output text from autogen.sh.

Wouldn't it be funny if AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(1.8.3) is not backwards 
compatible with Automake 1.7, thereby defeating the purpose to which it 
is put?  It does seem that I'm using a newer form of argument passing, 
and that there's an older depreciated form.  I'm not interested in 
chasing down Automake problems any more thoroughly than to note how much 
it sucks.  I do know that it was sufficient for distinghishing 1.8.x and 
onwards.


> I have built CMake using the Linux bootstrap process, and it built
> chicken without any problems.

Cool!  So I'll just be saying "use CMake" early and often when there's 
an Automake problem.  Maybe we can accumulate enough Automake bugs to 
junk the whole thing.  :-)


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every