Re: [Chicken-hackers] Build problems

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Tony Sidaway wrote:
> My system:
>
> automake (GNU automake) 1.7.6

Now why didn't you get a warning saying that Automake 1.8.3 or higher is 
required?  We have AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(1.8.3) in our configure.in.  Or did 
you get the warning and ignore it?  Or did you get a screenful of 
gibberish and not notice a warning?  In which case it wouldn't be your 
fault, it would be an inadequate warning.  Anyways we did try to 
bulletproof your seeming immediate problem, and for some reason it 
didn't work.  So the question is whether it's user error or an 
inadequate safety mechanism.

In any event, I recommend you drop this Automake crap.  Use CMake.  
Because unlike Automake, it isn't hell to use or understand.

This does remind me that README.darcs needs to be banished / modified.  
I spaced that out last time I thought of it.  I think I will try putting 
it in the bugtracker, because I'm not up to rewriting stuff at the moment.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every