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List:       linux-ha-dev
Subject:    Re: [Linux-ha-dev] [PATCH] check bootstrap for automake version
From:       Alan Robertson <alanr () unix ! sh>
Date:       2005-07-28 13:49:22
Message-ID: 42E8E262.3010609 () unix ! sh
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Roberto Nibali wrote:
>>>>I am yet to be convinced this is not the correct approach.
>>>So why is it not applied to the tree then?
>> 
>>In a nutshell, two reasons as far as I can see.
>>
>>1. Only Debian users seem to care about automake-1.4.
>>   Or more to the point, only Debian users have reported
>>   this problem.
> 
> Fair enough.
> 
>>2. Alan hasn't been convinced that my patch doesn't break things
>>   with more recent versions of automake. 
> 
> Get him drunk :)
> 
>>1. Does the tree build
>>
>>2. Are all files included in a tarball produced by makedist.
> 
> Completely missed the makedist, but agreed.
> 
>>On Debian, ./ConfigureMe calls configure with --disable-snmp-subagent
>>amongs other things, so if files were to be missing from the tarball,
>>this should show that up. I visually checked the output of the grep
>>command to verify weather or not this was the case.
> 
> I reckon this is good enough, yes.
> 
>>Here are the results, where Ok means make dist succeeded and the snmp
>>files were present in the resulting tarball:

I read the automake documentation and have decided that surely something 
else must have caused the problem I saw.  There are some things that I 
now know could have caused it - but I had assumed that this was the problem.

I also now know about DISTDIRS which could have been used to fix 
basically any problem that might occur.

So, in summary, I suspect I was wrong on this.

Can the patch to this wait until 2.0.1?

-- 
     Alan Robertson <alanr@unix.sh>

"Openness is the foundation and preservative of friendship...  Let me 
claim from you at all times your undisguised opinions." - William 
Wilberforce
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