Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 229281
FutureFeature: Requesting version 1.10
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:57 EST
Description of problem: This is to request you to kindly make version 1.10 of Automake available for Fedora Core 5. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): The current version of Automake is 1.9.6. Rationale: I use automake (and autoconf) to generate the build infrastructure of a number of programs I develop. GNU Parted is one such program. We are shifting to Automake 1.10 (and Autoconf 2.61) from now onwards to avoid having the bugs that were fixed in the latest releases of Automake in the build infrastructure. eg., if you use automake-1.9.6, you end up distributing build infrastructure that selects a version of "mkdir -p" that is not thread safe, and that may fail when building with "make -j2".
Automake-1.10 broke quite a few builds when it replaced automake-1.9.* in our buildsystem. As you seem to be familiar with the autofoo stuff, you should be able to rebuild the FC7(rawhide) package on your FC-6 system and cope with the resulting build problems. But I won't release a automake-1.10 for either FC-6 (bug #230609) or FC-6 as not everyone is able to fix the resulting problems.