tinc devel - May 2015 - tinc 1.1 git: new automake needed?

Hallo,

trying to compile the current 1.1 git snapshot under Debian Wheezy gives 
me:

configure.ac:7: option `info-in-builddir' not recognized
autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1

Do I now need a specific newer version of automake?

Seems to be the result of commit
13f9bc1ff199bea46 "Add support for out-of-tree ("VPATH")
builds."

Undoing the change to configure.ac fixes the compile for me.

(Though 'make check' fails in the invite-join.test, still investigating 
if it is something local)

c'ya
sven-haegar

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On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 02:59:11AM +0200, Sven-Haegar Koch wrote:
> configure.ac:7: option `info-in-builddir' not recognized
> autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
> 
> Do I now need a specific newer version of automake?
Yes.
> Seems to be the result of commit
> 13f9bc1ff199bea46 "Add support for out-of-tree ("VPATH")
builds."
"VPATH" build allow easy building of tinc for multiple targets from a
single source directory. Since the info files are depending on paths
configured with --sysconfdir and --localstatedir, they should be built
in the build directory.

I wonder if autoconf can check first if automake supports that flag...

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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Sorry about the trouble from my commit.

Guus: if there's no obvious solution to this, I think it would be
better to just remove info-in-builddir, even if that breaks VPATH
builds. Apparently info-in-builddir was introduced in automake-1.14
which was released on 2013-12-24. Any user running a version of
automake that's older than that (which includes Debian Wheezy) will
hit this issue. I'm guessing that would be a lot of people, so simply
removing the option seems like the lesser evil right now.

On 13 May 2015 at 13:34, Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 02:59:11AM +0200, Sven-Haegar Koch wrote:
>
>> configure.ac:7: option `info-in-builddir' not recognized
>> autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
>>
>> Do I now need a specific newer version of automake?
>
> Yes.
>
>> Seems to be the result of commit
>> 13f9bc1ff199bea46 "Add support for out-of-tree ("VPATH")
builds."
>
> "VPATH" build allow easy building of tinc for multiple targets
from a
> single source directory. Since the info files are depending on paths
> configured with --sysconfdir and --localstatedir, they should be built
> in the build directory.
>
> I wonder if autoconf can check first if automake supports that flag...
>
> --
> Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
>      Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
>
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On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 09:39:13AM +0200, Florent B wrote:
> Any news about that option ? Can't compile on Wheezy...
I removed the info-in-builddir option for now.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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