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Re: Skip all version checks with autoconf?
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Earnie |
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Re: Skip all version checks with autoconf? |
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Mon, 27 Aug 2018 11:36:40 -0400 |
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On 8/25/2018 1:18 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 08/24/2018 05:59 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>>> It is not autoconf's problem when someone writes a configure.ac that
>>> wrongly
>>> claims to use too-new of a version of automake. But if you don't
>>> think the
>>> package is actually relying on a feature that only that newer automake
>>> provided, you are welcome to edit configure.ac and change the
>>> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE() line to list a lower version number, rerun
>>> autoreconf,
>>> and see if it completes successfully.
>>
>> OK, let's get rid of these useless checks whose only purpose is to
>> stop someone from accomplishing their task at hand.
>>
>> sed -i '/AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE/d' configure.ac
>
> Nope, that's not how you do it. You NEED the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE() line,
> just not necessarily the higher version number requirement within the line.
>
> I'm thinking more along the lines of:
>
> sed -i '/AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE/ s/\b[0-9.]*\b//'
>
Wouldn't wrappers like Cygwin uses work? Of course the wrapper requires
you to have every possible version available. Note there is a wrapper
both for autoconf and automake.
--
Earnie
- Re: Skip all version checks with autoconf?, (continued)
- Re: Skip all version checks with autoconf?, Jeffrey Walton, 2018/08/24
- Re: Skip all version checks with autoconf?, Paul Eggert, 2018/08/25
- Re: Skip all version checks with autoconf?, Basin Ilya, 2018/08/25
- Re: Skip all version checks with autoconf?, Nicholas Clark, 2018/08/25
- Re: Skip all version checks with autoconf?, Basin Ilya, 2018/08/25
- Re: Skip all version checks with autoconf?, Warren Young, 2018/08/25
- Re: Skip all version checks with autoconf?, Marko Lindqvist, 2018/08/25
- Re: Skip all version checks with autoconf?, Bob Friesenhahn, 2018/08/27
- Re: Skip all version checks with autoconf?, Keith Marshall, 2018/08/27
- Re: Skip all version checks with autoconf?, Eric Blake, 2018/08/27
- Re: Skip all version checks with autoconf?,
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