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Re: automake parallel install
>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
Tom> My current thinking is that we would name the installed version
Tom> and the install directories after the "install version". For
Tom> anything in the 1.5 series (1.5.1, 1.5-p1, 1.5c, whatever), this
Tom> would be "1.5". Then we would guarantee that for a given
Tom> "install version" we would only do bug fixes.
I decided not to do this. It is simpler and easier to understand if
we simply always add the version number.
Tom> I think the rebuild rule problem is even worse if autoconf is
Tom> versioned. Where will the version info come from?
I looked at this some more. The info can simply come from autoconf
itself. Automake puts `$(AUTOCONF)' into the Makefile.in, and this is
computed in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE. So if we can get the autoconf version
at configure time we can easily handle this.
Tom