[gentoo-dev] cleaning up forcing of all autotools

[gentoo-dev] cleaning up forcing of all autotools

[Mike Frysinger]

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i'm going to be fixing the autoconf/automake wrappers so that they no longer 
require all versions of autoconf/automake ... this will resolve the annoying 
circular dependency but at the sametime packages need to make sure that if 
they use autotools, they pull in the correct version
-mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] cleaning up forcing of all autotools

[Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò]

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On Thursday 14 September 2006 05:18, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>   i'm going to be fixing the autoconf/automake wrappers so that they no
> longer require all versions of autoconf/automake ... this will resolve the
> annoying circular dependency but at the sametime packages need to make sure
> that if they use autotools, they pull in the correct version
On this note, please try to force automake 1.9 if it's possible, as that's 
safer with autoconf 2.60 (a part the lots of warnings about datarootdir, I've 
found a couple of packages that fails to compile when built with autoconf 
2.60 and automake < 1.9).

This way you also use the latest available without requiring old versions of 
automake.

Note that autotools eclass right now simply requires latest version of both 
automake and autoconf (as it needs autoconf 2.5 series anyway).

Mike, will you update autotools eclass as well, to accept WANT_AUTO* before 
inherit line? It should be trivial, but I'd have to check it first.

-- 
Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/
Gentoo/Alt lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE

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Re: [gentoo-dev] cleaning up forcing of all autotools

[Mike Frysinger]

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On Thursday 14 September 2006 07:02, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> Mike, will you update autotools eclass as well, to accept WANT_AUTO* before
> inherit line? It should be trivial, but I'd have to check it first.

i prob wont have time till this weekend ... so if you get to it before me i 
wont feel bad ;)
-mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] cleaning up forcing of all autotools

[Mike Frysinger]

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On Wednesday 13 September 2006 23:18, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> i'm going to be fixing the autoconf/automake wrappers so that they no
> longer require all versions of autoconf/automake ... this will resolve the
> annoying circular dependency but at the sametime packages need to make sure
> that if they use autotools, they pull in the correct version

now that users can depclean versions, people are finding broken packages

here's some notes for you devs ... use autotools.eclass and set the WANT 
variables and the eclass should take care of DEPEND for you

need autoconf-2.13 (oh god why) ?  then do this:
WANT_AUTOCONF=2.1
inherit autotools

how about automake-1.7 ?  then do this:
WANT_AUTOMAKE=1.7
WANT_AUTOCONF=2.1
inherit autotools

dont care what version, you just want the latest ?  then do this:
WANT_AUTOMAKE=latest
WANT_AUTOCONF=latest
inherit autotools
the autotools eclass will mung "latest" into the correct values
-mike

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