Feature changed by: Stephan Kulow (coolo) Feature #306197, revision 6 Title: Ship multiple automake versions. openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Luis Medinas (lmedinas) Description: In order to build gnome from svn (probably other projects need it too) we need automake-1.4 1.7 1.8 and 1.9. It would be good if we deliver an option to work with update-alternatives to choose the automake version. This should really be integrated in the base system. This is a goal for 11.2 from the GNOME team, having gnome svn build without building from source this dependencies. Usually this tools are used by Gnome developers. Discussion: #1: Pavol Rusnak (prusnak) (2009-03-11 21:02:21) Is it possible to use autoreconf -fi on older projects to compile with newer tools? (Or even better to fix bugs to build with newer tools?) #2: Luis Medinas (lmedinas) (2009-03-13 19:38:13) No, there are applications that fails with automake 1.10. Fix bugs to use newer tools is not an easy task in big projects like GTK+. See open bugs about it on upstream. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=564349 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448828 + #3: Stephan Kulow (coolo) (2009-03-30 20:55:54) + we didn't need automake-1.4 for years and I don't see why we need it + now. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306197