Re: gnome-autogen.sh out of date

On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 10:51:12PM +0200, Rhialto wrote:
> I'm trying to fix wip/pan2-git. It pulls sources directly from git,
> then needs to use and autogen procedure to make configure, etc.
> For this, it uses /usr/pkg/bin/gnome-autogen.sh. This script seems to
> know about automake up to 1.11.
> 
> However, the automake in pkgsrc is now at 1.12. Apparently the
> gnome-autogen.sh script doesn't like that, and claims that it can't find
> an appropriate automake.
> 
> I'm trying to set environment variables to override some of its version
> logic, but then the script aborts ato some point and dumps all
> environment variables.
> 
> What to do about this?

Longer term there is thankfully a move to autoreconf. One mystery
is why automake is treated differently to autoconf by gnome-autogen.sh.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537772

Cheers,

Patrick

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