On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgout...@lyx.org> wrote: > 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.
Downgrading to a warning would be nice. > 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. I did not know this. Makes sense. Scott
