[Xastir-Dev] Fixed awk, but install's messed

[Alan Crosswell]

I believe the version dependency is documented *wrong* in README but 
what's worse is the dependency mismatch is not being caught!
/a

Jack Twilley wrote:

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>>>>>>"Alan" == Alan Crosswell <alan at columbia.edu> writes:
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>Alan> Regarding the install prefix being hosed, I don't know why that
>Alan> happened, although that sounds like some kind of issue with
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>Alan> autoconf not setting the right values in configure.  /a
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>>> The install prefix was hosed because it uses $package which is
>>>derived - From the first argument to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, at least on
>>>my system.  I've fixed that, and Chris Bell gave it a clean bill of
>>>health for Solaris.  Could you confirm it on Linux for me so I can
>>>check it in?
>>>
>>>/xastir-dev
>>>
>>>      
>>>
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>Alan> That appears to get set by AC_INIT.  Not sure why it should be
>Alan> different for you.  What versions of automake and autoconf are
>Alan> you using?  
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>Alan> my automake --version is 1.6.3 
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>My automake --version is 1.5, but I can install 1.7.5 if you think
>it'll make a difference.
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>Alan> my autoconf --version is 2.5.7
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>My autoconf --version is 2.53, but I can install 2.57 if you want.
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>Alan> According to the info page for automake, you must have an
>Alan> obsolete version of automake or autoconf since the package name
>Alan> and version are set by the AC_INIT macro and the
>Alan> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro inherits those values from it.  Sounds
>Alan> like it can't hurt to use the obsolete options but one has to
>Alan> make sure now that AC_INIT and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE are *both*
>Alan> updated each time the version number changes -- see the comment
>Alan> a few lines higher in configure.ac about "SET VERSION HERE!"
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>Yeah, I'm familiar with those lines of code. :-)  
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>Alan> Did the AC_PREREQ test succeed or did you get an error message
>Alan> during bootstrap.sh?
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>Here's what I get on bootstrap.sh if you're curious:
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>Running aclocal
>Running autoheader
>configure.ac:19: warning: do not use m4_patsubst: use patsubst or m4_bpatsubst
>configure.ac:271: warning: do not use m4_regexp: use regexp or m4_bregexp
>autoheader: `config.h.in' is unchanged
>Running autoconf
>configure.ac:34: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_GNU_SOURCE
>Running automake
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>Alan> So it will work and it's not a Linux version issue so much as an
>Alan> automake version issue.  /a
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>If we do something that depends on a particular version of automake or
>autoconf, that version dependency should be documented.
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>Jack.
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