[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: update config.{sub,guess}?
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 22:25:48 -0600
Well, I guess it's time for me to finally get the latest versions of
autotools. Would it be possible to get them from a repository and build
them for my machines? That way I can be sure I have the latest versions.
John
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 02:22:11PM +0100, Christian Egli wrote:
> Hi Samuel
>
> Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > The Debian avr32 porters told me that liblouis doesn't build because of
> > old config.{sub,guess} files [1]. Could they be updated?
> >
> > [1]: http://bugs.debian.org/563485
>
> Thanks for your report. I looked at the bug report and could imagine
> that this is due to the fact that John (the maintainer of liblouis) uses
> quite old versions of autotools when he builds the release. It could be
> that the new version of liblouis (1.8.0) which uses gnulib in parts will
> fix this problem, although it is still built with the same old
> autotools. If the problem persists with version 1.8.0 I could try to
> upload a tar ball that was built with a more modern version of the
> autotools to the Google code page. However I would rather not have two
> different versions of liblouis (the one built by John with old autotools
> and the one built by me with relatively modern versions of the
> autotools).
>
> Thanks
> Christian
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