I tried to upgrade to automake-1.8.3 ... but the result is
that now I am using one monitor instead of two (*), so here
is a report for 1.7.9 ;)
automake-1.7.9 contains a bug in the generation of dependency
on 'Makefile.am'. The generated Makefile.in files contain:
$(srcdir)/Makefile.in: @MAINTAINER_MODE_TRUE@ Makefile.am $(top_srcdir)/configure.ac
$(ACLOCAL_M4)
This should be:
$(srcdir)/Makefile.in: @MAINTAINER_MODE_TRUE@ $(srcdir)/Makefile.am
$(top_srcdir)/configure.ac $(ACLOCAL_M4)
Note the added "$(srcdir)".
Regards,
--
Carlo Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(*) In order to upgrade to automake-1.8.3, I needed to upgrade
autoconf too - so I installed autoconf 2.59. As a result of
that I got an error along the lines of 'can't locate "xyz"
in path of "Request" blah blah (sorry, I can't recall the
exact error anymore)... in file thisAndThat.pm'. I didn't
understand any of that, and there was no useful reference
for it on Google - so I decided to upgrade perl too (.pm =
perl module)... However, then you have to upgrade db4, and
python, and pam, and glibc etc... so, I decided to install
apt-get and first upgrade to fedora core 1, and if that
succeeded to fedora development (which uses automake 1.8.3).
After doing this - my fonts in the konsole stopped working,
so I decided to ditch my custom KDE compilation and try the
fedora kde rpms, something I had not done/upgraded for a
long time because every time I did, it froze X for me...
And yes - I got everything working but... X froze after
10 hours running. I upgraded my kernel and the nvidia
drivers - but no - it still froze again after a few hours.
In an attempt to isolate this problem I stopped using the
nvidia drivers and started to use the 'nv' driver of XFree;
but.. you guess, that doesn't support TwinView - result:
I turned one monitor off and am using only a single monitor
now because I tried to upgrade to autmake-1.8.3. QED.
PS I am using perl-5.8.3
