Re: small configury update
Hello Matthias, everyone,
* Matthias Andree wrote on Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 12:33:31PM CEST:
>
> Congratulations on the autoconf 2.60 release BTW - although I should
> have wished for an accumulated list of incompatible changes (such as the
> datarootdir stuff) at the very beginning of the 2.60 NEWS
> entries... Next time :)
Yeah. We put it in the announcement, but prioritizing NEWS would have
been even better, agreed.
> > -AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = 1.6 foreign
> > +AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = 1.9 foreign
>
> I object to that change. While 1.9 is documented as requirement, I found
> no difficulties building mutt after aclocal-1.6;automake-1.6, and there
> seems to be a considerable installed base of automake 1.8 based
> systems. Let's not put spokes in their wheels.
Oh, fine with me. It seems Brendan left both version requirements out
on purpose, and I was merely too lazy to try out older versions.
Cheers,
Ralf