On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Drummonds, Scott B wrote: > From: Frederik Fouvry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can install it on other places than /usr/share or /usr/local > > (forgot which one is the default) with > > But I don't own the large software project that I'm trying to modify. > If I upgrade the version of Automake to provide a feature I need in the > build environment, it will be my responsibility to validate the existing > multi-million line project against the new version. If you're telling > me that Automake is 100% forward compatible--that I can upgrade from 1.4 > to the newest version and there will be no errors in Automake > execution--then I'm on it! But my experience leads me to believe that > this is not the case.
Automake is very good at telling you about incompatibilities while upgrading. I don't recall Automake misbehaving at run-time due to an incompatibility, but it is possible that it may have happened before and I just don't remember. Upgrading Autoconf is much more of a concern than upgrading Automake. Unfortunately, newer Automake's require newer Autoconfs. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen
