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Subject: Re: Do we now require Automake 2.5?
From: Kuba Ober <kuba () mareimbrium ! org>
Date: 2002-03-09 17:34:23
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On Friday 08 March 2002 22:18, Vincent Meyer, MD wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I did a cvs update this afternoon, and when i went to
> gmake the Makefile.cvs, it bombed with :
>
> FATAL ERROR: Autoconf version 2.50 or higher is required for this script
>
> This worked fine with the earlier Autoconf this morning. Tried downloading
> and adding the Mandrake Cooker version of 2.5, but that's not working
> either.
Another side of the things: the autoconf/automake is clearly a
hard-to-understand thing for beginners. The error messages typically don't
mean much, since the effects of errors in autoconf/automake process show
themselves a lot later, when invoking the actual make. In the long run, I
consider it a hassle since learning curve is steep, and people need to learn
something that's not essential to whatever coding/fixing they actually want
to do.
Wouldn't it be a good idea to move to stable, industry-strength package like
cook? Cook is a make replacement, and it's one of a hell of a workhorse. It
natively supports network (say lan/intranet) distributed builds, and is very
straightforward to use, and cleanly extensible to support
architecture-dependent quirks.
Cook's webpage: http://www.pcug.org.au/~millerp/cook/cook.html
Cheers, Kuba
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