Re: [Freeipmi-devel] Re: autoconf automake m4 versions

[Albert Chu]

> But I _cannot_ go too far back _with autoconf_ because all the really 
> good stuff --- stuff that makes it possible to clean things up a 
> little bit (AC_SEARCH_LIBS for instance) --- is recent.

Agreed.  I think automake 1.6 and autoconf 2.57 is a good mix.

Al

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----- Original Message -----
From: Ian Zimmerman <address@hidden>
Date: Thursday, May 6, 2004 9:25 am
Subject: [Freeipmi-devel] Re: autoconf automake m4 versions

> 
> Albert> Got it to work with automake 1.7.  But a problem is redhat's
> Albert> distros don't go higher than automake 1.6.
> 
> Albert> Did you leap up versions on Debian just locally?? Do you 
> expectAlbert> most people to on Debian to have 1.7?  B/c we used
> Albert> AM_CONFIG_HEADER in the original libfreeipmi/fish projects.
> 
> Debian has packages for all the stuff I used.  Debian testing, of 
> course,not Debian stable.
> 
> For this one macro, it is not worth arguing - I'll see if
> AM_CONFIG_HEADER still works with my setup.  But I _cannot_ go too far
> back _with autoconf_ because all the really good stuff --- stuff that
> makes it possible to clean things up a little bit (AC_SEARCH_LIBS for
> instance) --- is recent.
> 
> I'll report soon.
> 
> Ian
> 
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