[Xorp-hackers] heads up on autoconf names on ubuntu

[Atanu Ghosh]

Hi,

My vote is that we leave the version numbers in (it makes it obvious
which tools are being used). Anyone running bootstrap is developing
code, it shouldn't be too burdensome to set the variables in the
environment.

      Atanu.

>>>>> "Pavlin" == Pavlin Radoslavov <pavlin at icir.org> writes:

    >> I've just set up an ubuntu box (7.04 server), and have installed
    >> the autoconf/make tools to build xorp. The following diff is
    >> required to get them to work. This raises the question about
    >> whether we should have the tool version as part of the file name
    >> or not in the bootstrap script.

    Pavlin> Originally the names were without the version suffix. I
    Pavlin> added the suffixes recently while updating the autotools
    Pavlin> support to work with the most recent versions.

    Pavlin> The suffix addition was primarily experimental: I wanted to
    Pavlin> see whether explicitly encoding the recommended autotool
    Pavlin> versions in the "bootstrap" file is preferred from other
    Pavlin> developers' perspective.  It seems the answer is "no" at
    Pavlin> least for you :)

    Pavlin> If other folks don't have any preferences/opinion on the
    Pavlin> subject, feel free to change the names.

    Pavlin> Thanks, Pavlin

    >> Adam
    >> 
    >> cvs diff bootstrap Index: bootstrap
    >> ===================================================================
    >> RCS file: /usr/local/www/data/cvs/xorp/bootstrap,v retrieving
    >> revision 1.28 diff -r1.28 bootstrap 15,18c15,18 <
    >> ACLOCAL=${ACLOCAL:-"aclocal110"} <
    >> AUTOCONF=${AUTOCONF:-"autoconf261"} <
    >> AUTOHEADER=${AUTOHEADER:-"autoheader261"} <
    >> AUTOMAKE=${AUTOMAKE:-"automake110"}
    >> ---
    >> > ACLOCAL=${ACLOCAL:-"aclocal"} >
    >> AUTOCONF=${AUTOCONF:-"autoconf"} >
    >> AUTOHEADER=${AUTOHEADER:-"autoheader"} >
    >> AUTOMAKE=${AUTOMAKE:-"automake"}
    >> 
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