Re: automake changes

Alexander Hansen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.core
Organization Fink Core Team
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 10/14/12 7:56 AM, Daniel Macks wrote:
> Now that the automake split (a set of orthogonal automake1.XX-core with 
> versioned files and a set of mutually exclusive automake1.XX dependent 
> on them with generic filenames) is done, there is a dependency deadlock 
> via autoconf. The am1.XX-core have Depends:autoconf2.6 but lots of 
> packages use BuildDepends:autoconf,automake1.XX and autoconf2.6 and 
> autoconf are mutually exclusive. Cannot install ac because it wants to 
> displace ac2.6 and ac2.6 cannot be removed because am1.XX-core depends 
> on it and am1.XX depends on that. Can am1.XX-core have Depends:ac2.6|ac 
> (allowing either autoconf flavor)? Or can we push promptly the same 
> type of conversion of autoconf* to autoconf*-core and have am1.XX-core 
> hardcode pointers to the versioned ac stuff?
> 
> dan
> 
>   --
> Daniel Macks
> [email protected]
> 
> 
> 

The prior monolithic automake1.11 had Depends: autoconf | autoconf2.6,
so I'd think we could do the same thing in automake1.xx-core
-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/

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