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

[Adam Greenhalgh]

But the issue is that the names aren't the same even with the version
numbers in them for example :

redhat : aclocal-1.6
gentoo : aclocal-1.10
ubuntu : aclocal-1.10
freebsd : aclocal110
solaris (local installation) : aclocal

Adam


On 6/5/07, Atanu Ghosh <atanu at icsi.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> 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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