Re: Re: Gripe: working on configure now requires Automake installed locally - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Re: Gripe: working on configure now requires Automake installed locally
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.21.0006151820480.399-100000@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: Re: Gripe: working on configure now requires Automake installed locally  (The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>)
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The Hermit Hacker writes:

> Okay, just to put my two cents in here ... when I played with libtool
> a little while back, it was my impression that *without* using
> automake, using libtool would be pretty hellish ...

It will be interesting, no doutb.

> ... but, shouldn't automake be a requirement on a developers machine if,
> and only if, they modify either the Makefile.am files *or*
> configure.in?  Like, it should only be a requirement for a select few of
> the developers?

The problem was that I was using the aclocal program, which comes with
automake and Tom didn't want to install that. In all truth, it doesn't do
*much* more than cat, so we use that for now.

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