[Gluster-infra] Updating automake for preparing release tar ball

Anoop C S anoopcs at redhat.com
Mon Jun 6 10:39:23 UTC 2016


On Mon, 2016-06-06 at 06:07 -0400, Kaleb KEITHLEY wrote:
> On 06/06/2016 04:48 AM, Anoop C S wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > From my analysis this happens due to the use of old automake
> > version(v1.11.1) while preparing the release tar ball. Starting
> > from
> > v1.11.2[2] automake has begun to accept empty arguments to --
> > destdir
> > option for auto generated py-compile script for byte compiling
> > python
> > code. Even if user have installed a version of automake >= 1.11.2
> > he/she will be presented with the above mentioned error during make
> > install as we have py-compile script included in the tar ball using
> > automake v1.11.1.
> > 
> > Can we have automake updated to some version >=1.11.2?
> > 
> On build.gluster.org, we have the latest available autoconf and
> automake:
> 
> 
> automake-1.15-1.el6.noarch
> autoconf-2.69-1.el6.noarch
> 
> 
> (They were updated on 2016-05-23.)
> 

That confirms my analysis. glusterfs-3.7.11 tar ball was created before
the specified date. Thanks for the info.

> --
> 
> Kaleb
> 


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