Re: regarding the auto* tools

From: Robert Collins <robertc@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 08:39:56 +1000

On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 00:26 +0200, Olivier Girondel wrote:
> Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> >> thanks, i'm giving a look at it right now, but it seems that there is no
> >> automake1.5 in debian right now, apt-cache jumps from 1.4 to 1.6.
>
> > Install it by hand in a different prefix.
>
> just did that, automake-1.5 from gnu + the patch, works perfectly.
>
> Henrik: thanks for the quick answer
>
> /olivier (still wondering why automake1.5 isn't in debian)

Because automake 1.6 and above are nearly completely backwards
compatible with 1.5. However, they require a newer autoconf. We've done
the changes for the newer autoconf in squid-3.0...

Rob

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