mvme167 patch for rtems-4.5.0-beta1c

[Charles-Antoine Gauthier]

I use RH 6.1. The installed /usr/bin/automake reports that it is 1.4. I
imagined that Joel got automake 1.4a out of CVS the way I did, but that
he checked it out a while ago, while I checked my copy out last week. I
can't remember what I did, but since I don't have any sticky flags, I
assume that I checked out the head revisions at the time.

I would be happy if RTEMS developers picked a specific version of
automake, autoconf et al that was available to all.

Now if we could just deal with those annoying ID strings... Any way to
bootstrap without having my name appear in the files? It generates too
many false diffs.

P.S.

Sorry about the huge patch I posted. I didn't check its size before. It
didn't look that big last night when I looked at it in the text editor,
but then again, I was getting cross-eyed by that time. Its not a good
idea to enclose it in replies (trying to teach me a lesson ;-)

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 
> Charles-Antoine Gauthier wrote:
> 
> 
> [..]
> >
> > Joel: With the addition of the network driver, we had to run bootstrap.
> > This caused a number of trivial changes to the Makefile.in files et al.
> > Also, our version of automake must be different from yours. The results
> > are slightly different (automake 1.4 gave similar output, automake 1.4a
> > was quite different, which makes me think that your version is a much
> > older 1.4a than the one I have). I recommend that you rerun bootstrap on
> > our files with your tools just for consistency.
> >
> 
> This is a known problem with Redhat and other Redhat based distributions (AFAIK, Mandrake and Helloween have the same problem).
> 
> cf http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/automake/1999-12/msg00155.html
> 
> In brief: The latest official version of automake is 1.4, but some vendors package unreleased snapshots taken at some time in the past from automake's development sources.
> 
> A similar incident recently seems to have occured with autoconf where some other vendors have picked up a development version called 2.14.1 ;)
> 
> Joel uses Redhat, therefore he uses Redhat's proprietary automake-1.4a.
> IMO, Joel better might consider using automake-1.4 in future ;)
> 
> Ralf.
> 
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Charles-Antoine Gauthier
Institute for Information Technology   Institut de technologie de
l'information
National Research Council of Canada    Conseil national de recherches du
Canada