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| author | Richard Boulton <richard@tartarus.org> | 2001-05-30 15:16:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard Boulton <richard@tartarus.org> | 2001-05-30 15:16:58 +0000 |
| commit | 6aacb9ca09fbe70fdf1dccc3bacd6b87c942e461 (patch) | |
| tree | 96a4d33c18f7e1cfbac9e4c8542881d25cf68470 /README | |
| parent | 378c15b872d6ed90a78c4b587acfc43c2d4761e7 (diff) | |
Automatically generate a patched automake if needed, and put instructions in the README about how to use such a patch...
Original commit message from CVS:
Automatically generate a patched automake if needed, and put instructions
in the README about how to use such a patched automake.
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -13,9 +13,14 @@ autogen.sh to generate the build system files. Unfortunately, there is a bug in automake which causes it to use a large amount of memory when generating plugins/Makefile.in. The following patch, which you may wish to apply to automake (version 1.4), fixes this problem. -Alternatively, ensure that you have at least 128Mb of memory on your system, +It is also fixed in versions of automake 1.4f and later. +Alternatively, ensure that you have at least 512Mb of memory on your system, and be prepared to wait a little while when running automake (or autogen.sh). +The autogen.sh script will automatically detect an unpatched automake and give +a warning. It will also generate a patched version of automake in the top +build directory, which you can use by putting it in a directory in your $PATH +ahead of the unpatched version of automake. @@ -2383,8 +2383,8 @@ # to all possible directories, and use it. If DIST_SUBDIRS is @@ -28,7 +33,3 @@ and be prepared to wait a little while when running automake (or autogen.sh). { $dist_subdir_name = 'DIST_SUBDIRS'; if (! &variable_defined ('DIST_SUBDIRS')) - - -The automake developers have been notified of this problem, and supplied with -an equivalent patch against CVS head. |