[mb-devel] libmusicbrainz3 testing

[Robert Kaye]

On Aug 2, 2006, at 10:30 AM, Lukáš Lalinský wrote:

> Robert Kaye wrote:
>>> You need automake 1.9.
>>
>> Is there a specific feature you're using in automake 1.9 that can
>> justify requiring people to install automake 1.9? If we keep this
>> requirement we will get a ton of support requests since 1.9 is not  
>> very
>> common yet. Unless there is a compelling reason to require it, we  
>> should
>> attempt to tweak the configs to work on as many platforms as  
>> possible.
>
> People, who only want to build the library, don't need Automake/ 
> Autoconf at all.
> It is only necessary to generate Makefile.in's and the configure  
> script, and
> these files are then included in the release tarball.

Understood. But that won't stop all the comments from coming in that  
the autogen.sh stuff is busted. I'd really prefer to have something  
to was more generic and builds on as many platforms as possible.

If you want, I'd be glad to fix the configs to be more general.

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