Re: [Freeipmi-devel] 2/18 change - "configure.ac: fix of automake init"

[Anand Babu Periasamy]

It is OK to make minimum required version as 1.9. 
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Albert Chu writes:
> It should work with automake 1.9, that's what I have.
>
> I suppose I can just do ustar internally in our local repo.  In the
> savannah repo we are close to 99 chars, but the naming of the package
> keeps it at about 92-93 chars, while the package naming I do internally
> sometimes pushes it above 99.
>
> Al
>
> > Al,
> > The problem was ustar option was not supported by automake-1.8. If you
> > really need that option  we should change minimum required version of
> > automake to 1.10.
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> > Albert Chu writes:
> > > What was the error?  We should work on an alternate solution rather than
> > > just revert to the earlier configure.ac.
> > >
> > > Al
> > >
> > > > Hi Al,
> > > >
> > > > ./autogen.sh failed with your chance.
> > > >
> > > > I use
> > > >
> > > > autoconf 2.61
> > > > automake 1.8.5
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Bala
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> > > >
> > > > > Bala,
> > > > >
> > > > > Is there a reason you reverted my fix to configure.ac from 2/16/07?
> > > > > Do
> > > > you guys run an older autoconf version that didn't support the changes
> > > > I
> > > > made?  I'm confused.
> > > > > Al
> > > > >
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