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Re: 07-fyi-deterministic-cond3.patch
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Akim Demaille |
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Re: 07-fyi-deterministic-cond3.patch |
Date: |
22 Oct 2001 00:07:15 +0200 |
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>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:
Akim> It contains only bug fixes, the combinatorial explosion can be
Akim> considered as such, and anyway, as far as I'm concerned, it
Akim> works, I use it.
Tom> The trunk needs autoconf 2.52, right? So it isn't just bug
Tom> fixes.
Correct. In this regad it is different from 1.5.1.
Akim> So why not releasing 1.6 +/- now?
Tom> That's a different question. Maybe this is the thing to do. I
Tom> haven't been reading my automake email lately. I don't know if
Tom> there is a big demand for a 1.5.1 bug fix release that works with
Tom> the old autoconf. If not, I agree -- 1.6.
The thing is that most bug reports are related to CDPATH and zsh: on
Darwin they use zsh as sh, and Automake macros break the job done by
2.50, which copes with these issues. At that time it was just because
I was working with Zsh, so I didn't realize Automake would _need_ it,
but in the meantime Darwin came to select good macros from bad ones :)
I am using amtraces=autoconf, and it works great. There are still a
few tests failures, but (i) because some tests use LIBOBJ assignments,
which is now wrong with Autoconf, uses AC_LIBOBJ (precisely introduced
so that Automake could trace them), and (ii), because I am not tracing
the obsolete macros, hence it doesn't get the complaints.
About (ii), (a) I still don't think this is Automake's job, that's a
job for Autoconf, in particular AU_DEFUN and AU_ALIAS, and (b) anyway
aclocal already complains, so why should automake double this job.
Are there really people using automake and not aclocal?