[PATCHES] Enable building using GNU Automake 1.13, 1.14

[Werner Koch]

On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 09:53, christian at quelltextlich.at said:

> the attached patches [1] enable building GnuPG and its dependencies
> using GNU automake 1.13, and 1.14.

We need to stick to 1.11 for some more time.  One of the reasons is:

  # Note: For automake 1.13 add the option
  #          serial-tests
  AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([dist-bzip2 no-dist-gzip])

The current automake does not support this option and for unknown
reasons the default changed in newer automakes.  I see that you hacked
around that problem.  However, requiring hacks to support newer automake
versions is clearly an automake problem which they should solbe and not
hundreds of other projects.  After all automake is there to make
maintainig software easier and not harder.

Also, experience of the last ~15 years has shown that major changes in
autotools introduced lots of problems for non-mainstream platforms or
non-default system configurations.  Thus I believe it is better to delay
a migration to newer versions.

I almost always follow deprecated warnings of autotools before doing a
release - the serial tests regression prohibited it this time.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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