Bug 7048

Summary:	User smarter autogen.sh
Product:	pycairo	Reporter:	Frederic Peters <fpeters>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Steve Chaplin <d74n5pohf9>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Frederic Peters 2006-05-27 06:37:47 UTC

pycairo currently force automake to be the right version, not looking for
alternative names like automake-1.9.

This breaks current GNOME builds, see:
  http://jhbuild.bxlug.be/builds/2006-05-26-0002/logs/pycairo/

Could autogen.sh from cairo (for example) be used in pycairo ?  It has logic to
look for different automake versions.

Comment 1 Steve Chaplin 2006-05-29 14:13:14 UTC

pycairo does not require the specific automake version 1.9, it requires any
automake version >= 1.9, which is not quite the same thing.

I don't think it "breaks GNOME builds", most should work fine. The only probjem
is on systems where there is a strange automake configuration. If there are
multiple automake installed then I'd expect the name 'automake' to be reserved
for the latest version, and everything works fine.
Why install multiple automake versions and not use the most recent version by
default?

Anyway, I've updated the autogen.sh to follow the method that cairo uses, so it
should fix the problem.

Comment 2 Frederic Peters 2006-05-29 17:48:38 UTC

Thank you.

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