Re: [autoconf] checking automake version in configure.ac

[Eric Blake]

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According to Ralf Corsepius on 10/6/2009 1:45 AM:
>>> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11])
>>
>> yes, but...
>>
>>> This way, running an insufficient automake on your source files will
>>> error out.
>>
>> ... I don't want that behavior. I just want to add a feature, not to
>> forbid a user to rebuild the files.
> Your consideration doesn't make sense.
> 
> If your package requires a minimum version of automake, then your
> package can't be rebuilt without a sufficient version of automake,
> therefore the user must be stopped running his automake.

The desired behavior TOTALLY makes sense (although this is an automake
question, not an autoconf question) - an example is the use of color-tests
when available, with a clean fallback to no color-tests if an older
automake was sufficient for everything else.  See this thread on the
automake list for the same question, and the answer given by the maintainer:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2009-08/msg00035.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2009-08/msg00040.html

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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