[Freeassociation-devel] Makefile.am issues in libical

[Debarshi Ray]

> There will be no way to patch .in's

I don't want you to patch .ins. Fix the .ams.

> you can call bootstrap yourself if you like to.

See, I know this dance about Autotools. bootstrap will not help
because running recent versions of the Autotools chain will modify
many of the .ams, .ins and configures. This will make the whole patch
messy.

> Maybe Art can tell you which version he used.

Automake 1.9.6. It is written in the generated files.
Autoconf/Automake upstream believes developers should be using the
most recent versions since distributing files generated by older (read
potentially buggy) versions is not advisable.

> Since there is no usage of the C++ version in the outside world so far the
> primary focus should be that  its building clean without.

This is a lame reason to not fix your Makefiles.

> The debian.org debs for example neither build the  C++ part, nor the python
> wrapper.

So?

Happy hacking,
Debarshi