[PATCHES] Enable building using GNU Automake 1.13, 1.14

[Christian Aistleitner]

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 02:21:37PM +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
> [ GNU automake's upstream approach to serial-tests is not nice ]
> However, requiring hacks to support newer automake
> versions is clearly an automake problem which they should solbe [...]

Yes.
Full ACK.
The newer automake releases are indeed irritating at best.
And yes, automake upstream should fix the issue.

However, we cannot hide from the fact that newer automakes are out in
the wild and get used just now. To list only a few distributions:
* Arch Linux is on 1.14.
* Linux From Scratch is on 1.13.1.
* Fedora Core 19 is on 1.13.2.

But actually, the motivation for the patches stems from Debian
Jessie / Sid users that were asking me about why the GnuPG ecosystem
does not compile for them.

Building GnuPG and its relevant dependencies by hand is already
hard. And I fully understand that this hurdle cannot be torn down at
once for free.

However, I see little use in trying to keep those hurdles up just to
allow to build up pressure against automake.

That said, I am of course fine with you deciding GnuPG will stay
automake <=1.12 only.

Have fun,
Christian

P.S.: I assume that other, similar patches (e.g.: Fixing compilation
for Texinfo >=5) will go down the same road, which I am totally fine
with. But ... is it nevertheless ok to post such patches to this list,
so people can at least find patches to help them build GnuPG and
related packages with up-to-date build systems?



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