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Re: What did AM_ ever do to you?


From: Diego Elio Pettenò
Subject: Re: What did AM_ ever do to you?
Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 07:51:15 +0100
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On 01/05/2013 04:40, Kerrick Staley wrote:
> Automake renamed some macros and dropped support for the older versions
> (AM_CONFIG_HEADER -> AC_CONFIG_HEADERS and AM_PROG_MKDIR_P
> -> AC_PROG_MKDIR_P come to mind). This is bad because it breaks every
> single open source project in existence (break ALL the builds), for reasons
> that most developers don't want to have to think about (writing code is
> fun; worry about how to build it is less fun).

Seriously, the impact is not a sbad as you state here. Other changes
before that broke many many more build than that.

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Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
address@hidden — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/



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