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

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

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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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