The reporter notes in particular that the -n option does not work
appropriately on recent versions of macOS.
From what I know, echo without any option is the most portable. But when
options are needed, there are too many variants of the command out
there, and printf becomes more reliable and consistent across platforms.
It is more recent than echo and therefore non-portable for very very old
platforms, but let's assume/hope that it old-enough for not being a
problem anymore.
Forgot to edit the first test in commit 6cf2641. If automake/aclocal
1.11 was installed, autogen.sh breaks, even though other higher versions
are installed too, because it is the first test.
Actually I'm not sure I understand this first test. Is it like the
"preferred" automake version?
Also add a test for generic `automake` binary in order to handle newer
versions. Thanks to Éric Hoffman for this proposition.
BUILD_EXEEXT was not properly set (config macro AX_PROG_CC_FOR_BUILD).
Apparently we need aclocal/automake version 1.13 or higher and to
distribute ax_prog_cc_for_build.m4 ourselves to benefit from a fix
released only in autoconf 2.69.
Thanks to Éric Hoffman for reporting and investigating on this.
Automake 1.13 apparently dates from 2012 and debian testing provides
a newer version (automake 1.15) so it should be ok to update it. Also
that's only a build dependency.
2009-01-13 Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org>
* INSTALL
* autogen.sh
* configure.in: require intltool >= 0.40.1. Looks like that was
the first version with support for the NC_ keyword.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=27902
2008-08-11 Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org>
Please re-run autogen.sh after this update, and let me know if
there are any problems.
* po-*/Makefile.in.in: updated to a version that does not
require
mkinstalldirs to be present.
* autogen.sh: removed the call to glib-gettextize and call
intltoolize without the --force command-line option. This change
makes an end to the po/Makefile.in.in being overwritten.
* HACKING: changed the documentation accordingly.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=26500
2008-06-11 Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org>
* autogen.sh: bumped INTLTOOL_REQUIRED_VERSION to 0.35.5. We
actually need 0.40.0 on the system where the tarball is rolled,
however 0.35.5 should be good enough for almost everyone.
* configure.in: use IT_PROG_INTLTOOL with minimum version instead
of the deprecated AC_PROG_INTLTOOL.
* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): removed intltool-foo.in files as
intltool 0.40.0 does not install these any longer. Removed them
from DISTCLEANFILES as well.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=25921
2008-05-23 Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org>
* autogen.sh (GLIB_REQUIRED_VERSION): require glib-gettextize 2.16.
* libgimp/libgimp-intl.h
* plug-ins/pygimp/pygimp-intl.h: synced with gi18n-lib.h from glib
2.16. This adds support for the C_() macro.
* plug-ins/script-fu/script-fu-intl.h: just include gi18n.h instead
of duplicating things from this header.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=25775
2007-11-21 Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org>
* HACKING
* autogen.sh: dropped support for automake 1.8 and require
automake >= 1.9.6. Require libtool 1.5 for all platforms.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=24210
2005-12-06 Manish Singh <yosh@gimp.org>
* autogen.sh: Allow overriding from shell environment variables,
and prefer any overrid automakes to the default, so long as the
version is new enough.
2005-12-06 Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org>
* autogen.sh: applied a patch provided by Pierre-Paul Lavoie that
makes it easier to adapt autogen.sh to uncommon executable names
(bug #323341).
2005-09-19 Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org>
* autogen.sh
* configure.in
* app/main.c
* app/widgets/gimptoolbox.c
* plug-ins/script-fu/scripts/web-browser.scm: changed "The GIMP"
to "GNU Image Manipulation Program" or just "GIMP".
2005-06-11 Manish Singh <yosh@gimp.org>
* configure.in: if any of the pygimp dependencies aren't fulfilled,
display a more informative message.
* autogen.sh: depend on automake 1.8, so AM_PATH_PYTHON has a user
defined failure mode. Also prefer automake 1.9.
2005-02-07 Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org>
* HACKING
* autogen.sh: dropped support for automake 1.6, automake >= 1.7 is
now required.
* configure.in: removed cruft that was there only for automake 1.6.
2005-01-20 Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org>
* HACKING
* Makefile.am
* acinclude.m4
* autogen.sh: applied (modified) patch from Raphaël Quinet that
allows to build GIMP from CVS without having gtk-doc installed.
If you need to do this, pass --disable-gtk-doc to autogen.sh.
* configure.in: removed --disable-devel-docs option since it has
become obsolete now.
* devel-docs/Makefile.am: require gtk-doc when running 'make dist'.
2004-10-23 Michael Natterer <mitch@gimp.org>
* autogen.sh: don't tell nonsense by printing "I am going to run
./configure with no arguments", because we always pass at least
--enable-maintainer-mode. Instead, simply always print all
arguments. Also removed --copy from the calls to glib-gettextize
and intltoolize.
2004-10-23 Michael Natterer <mitch@gimp.org>
* autogen.sh: don't tell nonsense by printing "I am going to run
./configure with no arguments", because we always pass at least
--enable-maintainer-mode. Instead, simply always print all
arguments.
2004-10-16 Manish Singh <yosh@gimp.org>
* autogen.sh: Add support for automake 1.9. Also rm autom4te.cache,
since it might interfere with differing autoconf versions.
2004-07-20 Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org>
* autogen.sh: added some empty lines to improve readability of the
output in case of problems.
* configure.in: bumped version number to 2.1.3.
2004-07-13 Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org>
* autogen.sh: when automake 1.8 is being used, require at least
version 1.8.3. Earlier versions of the automake-1.8 series don't
handle gimp-console correctly.
2004-03-23 Michael Natterer <mitch@gimp.org>
* autogen.sh: be verbose about AUTOGEN_CONFIGURE_ARGS in the
message that is printed if no arguments were passed.
2004-03-22 Raphael Quinet <quinet@gamers.org>
* autogen.sh: Added a test for the version of intltool because
some of the recent versions are known to break the Tips file.
This fixes bug #137502. The message should be updated when a new
version of libtool is released.
2004-03-04 Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org>
* autogen.sh: follow the changes done for other modules such as
glib, pango and gtk+:
- exit with $? instead of 1 in case of failure
- exit with $? if ./configure failed
- removed --enable-gtk-doc option
- added $AUTOGEN_CONFIGURE_ARGS
* HACKING: document the new behaviour.
Michael Natterer