| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Gripe: working on configure now requires Automake installed locally |
| Date: | 2000-06-15 16:22:15 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.21.0006151820480.399-100000@localhost.localdomain |
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The Hermit Hacker writes:
> 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 ...
It will be interesting, no doutb.
> ... 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?
The problem was that I was using the aclocal program, which comes with
automake and Tom didn't want to install that. In all truth, it doesn't do
*much* more than cat, so we use that for now.
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Peter Eisentraut Sernanders väg 10:115
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