Re: Automake 1.10 "make check" created 519 errors

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Robert,

* address@hidden wrote on Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 08:53:35PM CEST:
> Hi Ralf.  You were right about the autoconf version.  I did mean 2.59,
> and today I did upgrade to 2.61, which solved the whole problem.  It
> passed every test.  I should have ensured my autoconf was current before
> I bothered you, sorry.

Nothing to be sorry about, au contraire.  We forgot to adjust the
configure check to check for >= 2.60.  I'm applying this patch to
HEAD and branch-1-10.

Thanks again,
Ralf

2007-08-09  Ralf Wildenhues  <address@hidden>

        * configure.ac: Actually require version 2.60 in the test for
        Autoconf, and recommend it in the error messages.
        * THANKS: Update.
        Report by Robert Swafford.

Index: configure.ac
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/automake/automake/configure.ac,v
retrieving revision 1.35
diff -u -r1.35 configure.ac
--- configure.ac        7 Jul 2007 11:23:27 -0000       1.35
+++ configure.ac        9 Aug 2007 19:04:09 -0000
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
 # Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006,
-# 2004, 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# 2004, 2006, 2007  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 #
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
   am_cv_autoconf_installed=no
 fi])
 if test "$am_cv_autoconf_installed" = no; then
-  AC_MSG_ERROR([Autoconf 2.58 or better is required.
+  AC_MSG_ERROR([Autoconf 2.60 or better is required.
     Please make sure it is installed and in your PATH.])
 fi
 
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
 
 AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether autoconf is recent enough], [am_cv_autoconf_version],
 [mkdir conftest
-echo 'AC''_PREREQ(2.58)' > conftest/conftest.ac
+echo 'AC''_PREREQ(2.60)' > conftest/conftest.ac
 if AM_RUN_LOG([cd conftest && eval $am_AUTOCONF -o /dev/null conftest.ac]);
 then
   am_cv_autoconf_version=yes
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@
 fi
 rm -rf conftest])
 if test "$am_cv_autoconf_version" = no; then
-  AC_MSG_ERROR([Autoconf 2.58 or better is required.])
+  AC_MSG_ERROR([Autoconf 2.60 or better is required.])
 fi
 
 # Test for ln.  We need use it to install the versioned binaries.