11/04/2014 10:31, Scott Kostyshak:
I think you and Vincent are talking about something different. I'm talking about automake 1.15. Suppose it is released tomorrow. LyX 2.1 will fail to compile with it. I'm wondering if this should be mentioned in INSTALL or not. I have no experience with maximum versions of dependencies. Are they usually specified?
Yes, we always specify maximum versions, but I guess that we should just warn against them.
Note that LyX as released in tar.xz form contains a configure script and thus automake/autoconf versions are irrelevant. Only developers need a correct version of autotools.
JMarc
