Re: [avr-libc-dev] Bootstrap and automake 1.8.2

[Joerg Wunsch]

As Eric Weddington wrote:

> I can successfully build avr-libc, 1.4 branch, with automake
> 1.8.2. on MinGW/MSYS. However, the bootstrap script looks for and
> requires 1.9.x. Can I commit a change to the bootstrap script to
> allow automake 1.8.x? Or is there some overwhelming reason not to do
> this?

The comments say automake 1.9 were required.  I am not sure whether it
will work on automake 1.8.x at all.  Version 1.9 is more than two
years old (2004-07-28), is there really no chance to get a MinGW one
of it?

If it works, and doesn't break the 1.9 builds, well, you might relax
the check.

-- 
cheers, J"org               .-.-.   --... ...--   -.. .  DL8DTL

http://www.sax.de/~joerg/                        NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)