Re: detect old Automake

2010-02-28 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Peter Johansson wrote on Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 05:41:40AM CET: > On 2/25/10 3:14 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > >Changing that to 63 is probably a good idea (but we'd need to check > >whether throughout autotools there is no expectance of the other value), > Is anyone more than autoreconf and th

Re: detect old Automake

2010-02-25 Thread Peter Johansson
Hi Ralf, On 2/25/10 3:14 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Changing that to 63 is probably a good idea (but we'd need to check whether throughout autotools there is no expectance of the other value), Is anyone more than autoreconf and the missing script calling automake and thereby possibly react

Re: detect old Automake

2010-02-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Peter, * Peter Johansson wrote on Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 05:23:05PM CET: > [...] AC_PREREQ exits with status > 63 when compiled with an old Autoconf. I wonder if there is a > similar trick available for Automake. Well, you can put a minimum version number in the OPTIONS argument of AM_INIT_AUTOM

detect old Automake

2010-02-25 Thread Peter Johansson
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