On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 08:50:15PM -0800, Ted Gould wrote:
On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 22:35 -0500, John Bintz wrote:
Myself and others have been having problems building Inkscape since r17648, when you added the option for the tar-pax format in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE. Ubuntu Gutsy, which I'm running, and Fedora Core 6, according to some mailing list traffic, don't have a new enough version of automake in their standard repositories to run ./autogen.sh successfully with that option enabled. Other distributions may be involved, too.
I gave Ted the original go-ahead to do this change (although I thought it would only affect users invoking 'make dist'), but in reviewing the issues people are having (and the ease with which I've replicated the issues on my own systems), it's clear this change needs to be reverted. The last thing we want to do is insert obstacles for people wishing to compile and contribute to inkscape.
Ted, please revert the tar-pax change for 0.46, or reimplement it such that it imposes the automake 1.10 requirement ONLY when building a tarball. I think the requirement will be acceptable for 0.47.
Bryce