[breezy] Automake is defaulting to an ancient version

[Philip Van Hoof]

This causes some applications to fail building (from cvs)

freax@lort:~/cvs/gnome/anjuta/scintilla $ automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.4-p6

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This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
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freax@lort:~/cvs/gnome/anjuta/scintilla $

freax@lort:~/cvs/gnome/anjuta/scintilla $ auto[tab]
autoconf autoheader automake automake-1.9
autoreconf2.13 autoupdate
autoconf2.13 autoheader2.13 automake-1.4 autoopts-config
autoreconf2.50 autoupdate2.13
autoconf2.50 autoheader2.50 automake-1.6 autopoint autoscan
autogen autom4te automake-1.7 autoreconf autoscan2.13
freax@lort:~/cvs/gnome/anjuta/scintilla $ auto

[Philip Van Hoof (pvanhoof)]

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=312321

[Philip Van Hoof (pvanhoof)]

update-alternatives --config automake But imho should the prio be: first the
1.9, then 1.4 etc

[Paul Lauria (black-hole-sun16)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> update-alternatives --config automake But imho should the prio be: first the
> 1.9, then 1.4 etc
>

I agree. Lots of applications need a recent automake to build.

[Lakin Wecker (lakin)]

Thanks for your comment. The changes you are requesting require more discussion and should rather be done on an appropriate mailing list or forum. http://www.ubuntu.com/community/forums/ might be a good start.

[Jeffrey Walton (noloader)]

Can't open a new bug report ('Oops! Sorry, something just went wrong in Launchpad.'), so I'm tacking on the end of a similar thread. My apologies in advance.

jeffrey@gauss:~/gnu-pdf$ dpkg -s automake
Package: automake
Status: install ok installed
...
Source: automake1.11
Version: 1:1.11-1

jeffrey@gauss:~/gnu-pdf$ automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.11

If automake is at 1.11, then automake has an outstanding vulnerability:
   CVE-2009-4029 Automake security fix for 'make dist*'
   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2009-12/msg00012.html

If the '-1' in 1.11-1 is supposed to signify 1.11.1, then something appears broken (configure.ac includes AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11.1])):

jeffrey@gauss:~/gnu-pdf$ ./bootstrap
Bootstrapping the GNU PDF Library with:
  autoreconf -i
configure.ac:27: require Automake 1.11.1, but have 1.11
autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1