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Re: [autoconf] checking automake version in configure.ac
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [autoconf] checking automake version in configure.ac |
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Tue, 06 Oct 2009 05:58:03 -0600 |
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According to Ralf Corsepius on 10/6/2009 1:45 AM:
>>> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11])
>>
>> yes, but...
>>
>>> This way, running an insufficient automake on your source files will
>>> error out.
>>
>> ... I don't want that behavior. I just want to add a feature, not to
>> forbid a user to rebuild the files.
> Your consideration doesn't make sense.
>
> If your package requires a minimum version of automake, then your
> package can't be rebuilt without a sufficient version of automake,
> therefore the user must be stopped running his automake.
The desired behavior TOTALLY makes sense (although this is an automake
question, not an autoconf question) - an example is the use of color-tests
when available, with a clean fallback to no color-tests if an older
automake was sufficient for everything else. See this thread on the
automake list for the same question, and the answer given by the maintainer:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2009-08/msg00035.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2009-08/msg00040.html
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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- checking automake version in configure.ac, Vincent Torri, 2009/10/06
- Re: [autoconf] checking automake version in configure.ac, mpsuzuki, 2009/10/06
- Re: [autoconf] checking automake version in configure.ac, Vincent Torri, 2009/10/06
- Re: [autoconf] checking automake version in configure.ac, Ralf Corsepius, 2009/10/06
- Re: [autoconf] checking automake version in configure.ac, Vincent Torri, 2009/10/06
- Re: [autoconf] checking automake version in configure.ac, Ralf Corsepius, 2009/10/06
- Re: [autoconf] checking automake version in configure.ac,
Eric Blake <=
- Re: [autoconf] checking automake version in configure.ac, Vincent Torri, 2009/10/06
- Re: [autoconf] checking automake version in configure.ac, Ralf Corsepius, 2009/10/06
- Re: checking automake version in configure.ac, Eric Blake, 2009/10/06
- Re: checking automake version in configure.ac, Ralf Corsepius, 2009/10/06
- silent-rules (was: checking automake version in configure.ac), Ralf Wildenhues, 2009/10/06
- Re: silent-rules, Ralf Corsepius, 2009/10/13
- Re: silent-rules, Bob Friesenhahn, 2009/10/13
- Re: silent-rules, Ralf Corsepius, 2009/10/13
- Re: silent-rules, Eric Blake, 2009/10/13
- Re: silent-rules, Ralf Corsepius, 2009/10/13