Re: [avr-libc-dev] reconf

[Russell Shaw]

Joerg Wunsch wrote:
> As Russell Shaw wrote:
>
> > In a configure.ac file i have: AC_PREREQ(2.59).
> > This ensures that a recent enough version of Autoconf is being used.
>
> How does it ensure this, other by using versionized binary names?
> (Which is not the way it had originally been intented, but is the only
> practical way to do it unless you've got only applications that
> require the very same version of the tools.)

I'd guess it's the most obvious way. Autoconf just reads AC_PREREQ(2.59)
and compares that number with itself. /usr/bin/autoconf is just a bash script.

If you install devhelp and the autotools manual, you can search all the
autoconf kewords easily.

http://www.imendio.com/projects/devhelp/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/devhelp/
http://htmlhelp.berlios.de/books/devhelp.php
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=devhelp&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

Might even be an idea to make the avr-libc manual into a devhelp
book. Devhelp books are just xml files, and devhelp is an embbeded
mozilla browser.