autotools version possibilities

Wed Mar 17 14:25:00 GMT 2004

Tom Tromey wrote:
> benjamin> At this point, libstc++ would like to standardize on the
> benjamin> current release versions of these tools.
> benjamin> automake == 1.8.2
> benjamin> autoconf == 2.59
> benjamin> Will this work for libjava?
>> libjava is in a weird situation again. The released versions of
> automake generate a Makefile.in that is much too large to be seriously
> considered. We've got a fix for this, but I think it won't show up
> until 1.9 :-(

Has any one else noticed that even the top-level
Makefile.in has bloated considerably in 3.4/3.5
v/s 3.3?
-------------------------------- 8< --------------------------------
/tmp > ls -al Makefile.in*
-rw-r--r-- 1 ranmath Administ 53902 Mar 17 15:18 Makefile.in.33
-rw-r--r-- 1 ranmath Administ 737976 Mar 17 15:20 Makefile.in.34
-rw-r--r-- 1 ranmath Administ 756477 Mar 17 15:18 Makefile.in.35
/tmp > wc -l Makefile.in*
 1826 Makefile.in.33
 23650 Makefile.in.34
 24184 Makefile.in.35
-------------------------------- 8< --------------------------------
That automake thingy is acting real funky I say!
Ranjit.
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