Which automake for libjava?

Wed May 23 23:04:00 GMT 2001

On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:44:50PM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Zack" == Zack Weinberg <zackw@stanford.edu> writes:
>> Zack> Which !@#$ version of automake am I supposed to be using with libjava?
> Zack> 1.4-p1 barfs hundreds of complaints of the form
>> ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/java/automake-gcj-1.4.tar.gz

Thanks.
> Zack> My patience with automake is very very limited. If this keeps
> Zack> up I *will* rip it out entirely.
>> And, one hopes, maintain our Makefiles in perpetuity.

If it came to that, yes.
I've thought for some time that I could write Makefiles by hand that
were easier to maintain than automake input files. It'd be
interesting to see if I think correctly.
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