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Re: automake: 1.4, 1.5, and wrapper


On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 07:49:30PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:

...

> >3) In addition, it is possible to have a wrapper for automake with our
> >setup.  Gentoo has a similar setup, and uses this:
> >
> >http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/sys-devel/automake-wrapper/files/am-wrapper-1.sh?content-type=text%2Fplain

...

> #3 cui bono?  The only advantage of a wrapper system, as opposed to the 
> status quo, is that you don't need to set the current alternative 
> manually to match the desired version, when using autoreconf or a 
> bootstrap/autogen.sh script.  When using enable-maintainer-rules, even 
> under the current system you don't need to worry because the proper 
> version of automake is called explicitly.
> 
> But wrappers are sometimes wrong, so you need to manually set 
> WANT_AM_FOO.  When you get right down to it, what's the diff between 
> that and update-alternatives?

Perhaps a silly question, but maybe one of the alternatives could be
a wrapper? Best of both worlds, no?

/p

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