[GNUnet-developers] Re: [Help-gnunet] trouble with cvs

[Christian Grothoff]

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On Sunday 02 November 2003 01:28 pm, Benjamin Kay wrote:
> Libtool 1.5.0 and 1.5.0a are still cvs at the moment and, not suprisingly,
> the libtool bootstrap script doesn't work either. Unless anyone has any
> more ideas it looks like I'm stuck until the next release of GNUnet :-(
>
> If it turns out that libtool 1.5.0a is indeed required to build GNUnet from
> cvs, someone should update this page:
> http://www.ovmj.org/GNUnet/download.php3?xlang=English

It's more complicated than that, the magic seems to be in the combination.  
Here are the results of 3 tests that I just did:

Works:
gcc version    : 2.96
Gnu gmake      : 3.79.1
autoconf       : 2.13
automake       : 1.7.2
libtool        : 1.4.2


Works:
gcc version    : gcc (GCC) 3.3.2 (Debian)
Gnu make       : 3.80
autoconf       : 2.57
automake       : 1.4-p6
libtool        : 1.5.0a


Fails:
gcc version    : gcc (GCC) 3.3.1 20030626 (Debian prerelease)
Gnu make       : 3.80
autoconf       : 2.57
automake       : 1.4-p4
libtool        : 1.4.3


So the answer is: it is not quite clear which combinations work.  In general, 
the theme is that the developers fix problems if something does not work with 
the latest version, so if you have the latest version of all build tools (as 
in: the latest release) and it breaks, we'll try our best to fix it.  Sadly, 
the autotools are so messy that I don't think there's any good way of 
supporting "all" combinations, especially since their styles contradict each 
other sometimes.


Christian
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