Re: PicoGui and PocketPC

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 03:37:47PM +0100, Mat Sutcliffe wrote:
> From: Micah Dowty <[email protected]>
> > On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 10:41:55AM +0200, Piotr Bandur wrote:
> > > Yes, but seems I have autotools (v1.7.*) not compatible with code
> that is
> > > distributed with picogui.
> >
> > This is a common problem, but I'd rather spend the effort working on a
> > new build system than fixing bugs in a mess of M4 macros :)
> >
> > If you or someone else can provide a patch however, I'd be happy to
> > apply it into CVS.
> 
> I had the problem that I am using autotools 1.7, but the symlinks in
> PicoGUI point to /usr/share/automake-1.4/...
> I just had to redirect the symlinks to /usr/share/automake/... and it
> worked.
> This is a problem I encountered with 0.45, it was never a problem with
> 0.44.

These links were created by autogen.sh, which I have been running before
releasing tarballs. If you re-run autogen.sh it might fix this.

I would say I'd refrain from running autogen.sh before releasing in the
future, but since the next release should feature a new build system
that's a moot point :)

--Micah

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