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Re: Checking versions and defining macros
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: Checking versions and defining macros |
Date: |
Thu, 6 Mar 2008 08:00:58 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) |
Hello Jason,
let's please limit replies to the autoconf list, thanks.
* Jason Curl wrote on Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 06:47:04AM CET:
>
> To achieve my goals, I've borrowed some of the internals of the auto*
> tools (and libtool). I'd like to somehow check the version of the
> autotools during "autoreconf" time and include macros specific to a
> particular version. If I see a version that I haven't tested with, then
> I'd like to print a warning that something needs to be looked at (i.e.
> update my macros). This will allow me especially to upgrade to
> libtool-2.2 and play with it, while knowing it will always work with
> 1.5.24.
>
> A summary of what I've had to hack:
> AC_CHECK_LIB: borrowed from here for the Solaris networking features
> AC_CHECK_DECL: Disable printing, to encapsulate in my own scripts
> AC_PROG_LD: Would die if it couldn't find LD, rather than allow my
> configure.ac to provide an alternate
Not sure what your question is. Autoconf minimum version can be
required with AC_PREREQ, its exact version is
m4_defn([m4_PACKAGE_VERSION]). Automake minimum version can be required
with AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE. Libtool minimum version can be required with
LT_PREREQ (starting from 2.2). To rule out earlier versions, you can
see whether LT_PREREQ is defined: m4_ifdef([LT_PREREQ], [...]).
Cheers,
Ralf