Hi all,
In a project I have a couple of autoconf macros, which are tested during
`make check' by building a minimal package using the packages. Since
autotools is not a requirement for my package I want to skip the test
when autoconf or automake is not available. Done! I recently learnt that
the tests fail when old autotools were used so I wanna skip the test
also when old autotools are used. With Autoconf that seems to be easy
because AC_PREREQ exits with status 63 when compiled with an old
Autoconf. I wonder if there is a similar trick available for Automake.
For consistency and convenience it would be nice if Automake also
returned 63 when an too old version was used. Is there any reason
against that or would a patch be welcome?
Thanks,
Peter
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Peter Johansson
svndigest maintainer, http://dev.thep.lu.se/svndigest
yat maintainer, http://dev.thep.lu.se/yat
