[Xastir] User-visible change to build system.

Fred Erickson fredferickson at gmail.com
Sat Feb 4 20:38:00 EST 2012


On Sat, 2012-02-04 at 17:16 -0700, Tom Russo wrote:
> Thanks to Carl Makin for tracking down the issue where Xastir's build was
> failing with recent versions of automake.
> 
> Turns out that our scripts directory improperly used some automake variables
> in a way that was silently accepted in earlier versions of automake, but is
> flagged as an error in recent versions.  Carl provided a fix for this, and
> his fix has been applied to CVS.
> 
...snip...
> Once you update Xastir from CVS and confirm that the new scripts are installed
> in /usr/local/share/xastir/scripts, you should remove /usr/local/lib/xastir
> (sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/xastir), because the build procedure will not clean
> out the old directories.  Leaving them there could be a source of confusion
> later on, when scripts are changed -- the ones in /usr/local/lib/xastir will
> be outdated.
> 
Thank you Tom & Carl




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