Re: Re: Gripe: working on configure now requires Automake installed locally

On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > Huh? libtool doesn't require automake; I've been using it quite
> > successfully for libjpeg without any automake.
>
> Okay, then I'll have to investigate more. I'll tell you what, I'll
> change `aclocal' to `cat' for the time being. But I'd sure hate to
> have all the macro definitions in one file. As someone else once said,
> you separate what you test for from how you do the testing --
> implementation hiding.

Okay, just to put my two cents in here ... when I played with libtool a
little while back, it was my impression that *without* using automake,
using libtool would be pretty hellish ...

... but, shouldn't automake be a requirement on a developers machine if,
and only if, they modify either the Makefile.am files *or*
configure.in? Like, it should only be a requirement for a select few of
the developers?