Bug 186782 – media-libs/ftgl-2.1.2-r1 - WANT_AUTOMAKE is too strict

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Renato Caldas 2007-07-27 12:34:43 UTC]

The ftgl ebuild requires WANT_AUTOMAKE=1.4. Unfortunately to mee this is the only current package needing it.

Is there any reason behind this strict dependency? I've tried changing it to "latest" and it compiled fine. I've searched the bugzilla, no reports whatsoever regarding automake versions. Searched the tarball, no specific version requirement apart from the outdated syntax.

So can this requirement be removed/lessened? Thanks.

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-07-27 13:03:13 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> The ftgl ebuild requires WANT_AUTOMAKE=1.4. Unfortunately to mee this is the
> only current package needing it.

So what? That's not a bug. And yeah, it's not there for fun, it fails on eautoreconf with anything else (the last release is from 2004).

[Comment 2 Renato Caldas 2007-07-27 13:39:22 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > The ftgl ebuild requires WANT_AUTOMAKE=1.4. Unfortunately to mee this is the
> > only current package needing it.
> 
> So what? That's not a bug. And yeah, it's not there for fun, it fails on
> eautoreconf with anything else (the last release is from 2004).

Not true, I've unmerged automake-1.4_p6 and it still compiles properly, as I said:

> I've tried changing it to
> "latest" and it compiled fine.

[Comment 3 Renato Caldas 2007-07-27 14:30:18 UTC]

Reopening..

[Comment 4 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2007-07-27 14:48:18 UTC]

thanks, fixed!