Re: make dist

[Charles Levert]

* On Thursday 2005-11-17 at 00:10:42 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Charles Levert wrote:
> > * Tony Abou-Assaleh wrote:
> > > Found the problem. The automake version was 1.4, which caused a few things
> > > not to work. The syntax of some macros changed in later versions of
> > > automake.
[...]
> But automake1.4 is uniquely different and arguably broken.  It has the
> highest priority of all of the packages.  If automake1.4 is installed
> then it becomes the default.  See this reference for a discussion.
> 
>   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=228604

Thanks for the very thorough explanation.


> > My system has a /etc/alternatives and a
> > /usr/sbin/alternatives for this sort of things,
> > but strangely just a hard link is used between
> > /usr/bin/automake and /usr/bin/automake-1.7
> > instead of relying on them.
> 
> That seems like something locally done on your system.  It is not
> normal.

I neglected to say that _my_ system is not a
Debian one, but Fedora Core.  I directed the
discussion toward Debian because Tony indicated
that it was what's installed on _his_ system.
(Or, more precisely, not his own but the one he
uses to generate the nightly CVS snapshots, which
is the one that was relevant to the discussion.)

My version of Fedora Core just doesn't manage
automake through the alternatives system.
Maybe more recent ones do.  I don't know.
Thanks for trying to help on this too, though!