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.
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.
Thank you.
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