What is automake?

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pentium120 · Post by **pentium120** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 10:38 pm

Portage decided to download it today in an emerge world...

mike4148 · Post by **mike4148** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 10:47 pm

automake is a tool for generating nice, GNU-style makefiles. Most software packages use it. Portage uses the automake software itself whenever a package comes with source that does not already have the pregenerated makefiles (e.g., CVS snapshots).

adaptr · Post by **adaptr** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 10:49 pm

Automake is the GNU Automated Make system.

It is a core system package that enables the automated (system independent) compilation of source code.

Probably pulled into world because you have another development package in it.

MaDDeePee · Post by **MaDDeePee** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:05 pm

Yes, wonderful....but can someone comment this:

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bash-2.05b# emerge -va world

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[ebuild     UD] media-video/dvdauthor-0.5.0 [0.6.10] 0 kB
[ebuild     U ] media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r1 [1.0.6111-r3] 0 kB
[ebuild     U ] media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.6629-r1 [1.0.6111] (-multilib) 0 kB
[ebuild     U ] media-video/nvidia-settings-1.0.6629 [1.0.6111] 0 kB
[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.13  433 kB
[ebuild  N    ] sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper-2  0 kB
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r6 [2.59-r5] 903 kB
[ebuild     UD] sys-devel/automake-1.5 [1.8.5-r1] (-uclibc) 514 kB
[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r2  (-uclibc) 647 kB
[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.6.3  (-uclibc) 465 kB
[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.7.9  (-uclibc) 564 kB
[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.4_p6  (-uclibc) 366 kB
[ebuild  N    ] sys-devel/automake-wrapper-1  0 kB
[ebuild  NS   ] sys-devel/automake-1.9.4  (-uclibc) 734 kB
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/libtool-1.5.10-r3 [1.5.2-r7] (-uclibc) 2,636 kB
[ebuild     UD] x11-misc/superkaramba-0.34 [0.35] +arts -debug -doc +xinerama 0 kB
[ebuild  NS   ] media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.8_rc1  -debug -doc +oss 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 7,265 kB

Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No] Interrupted.

Why would it install automake in maybe all available versions? Im quite confused....

EDIT: I found out this all is related to libtool, looks like it depends of it in some way...

adaptr · Post by **adaptr** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 12:59 am

Seems like you answered your own question, then.

MaDDeePee · Post by **MaDDeePee** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 5:31 am

Hmm ok, but it looks strange anyway....

chrisstankevitz · Post by **chrisstankevitz** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 7:35 am

Can someone explain this:

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[ebuild     UD] sys-devel/automake-1.5 [1.8.5-r1] (-uclibc) 514 kB

I believe it's saying "1.8.5-r1 is no good, so I'm downgrading to 1.5".

1. Why/who/how is determing that 1.8.5-r1 is not good? This version is "stable" across the board: http://packages.gentoo.org/ebuilds/?automake-1.8.5-r1

2. Who/why/how decided that 1.5 is a suitable replacement for 1.8.5-r1?

Thanks for your help, just trying to understand.

Chris

Qubax · Post by **Qubax** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 8:38 am

also have a look here