Re: [avr-gcc-list] no avr/lib/avr25/attiny13a/Makefile.in

[Ruud Vlaming]

On Sunday 01 February 2009 17:19, you wrote:
> > > I'm ok with say that we require some verion >= X. Anything 
> > < X should fail. Anything >= X should be allowed. With X 
> > being the lowest version that we check for.
> > 
> > Test for autoconf min version alredy present in "configure.ac":
> > 38: AC_PREREQ(2.57)
> > 
> > Test for automake version can add this way:
> > configure.ac:126:
> > - AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([dist-bzip2 no-dist-gzip])
> > + AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.8 dist-bzip2 no-dist-gzip])
> > 
> > And remove test for autoconf and automake min version from bootstrap.
> 
> I like your idea. :-)
> Even if the user has the wrong versions for the bootstrap script, it will 
> be caught at the configuration step, and avr-libc won't be built anyway. 
Me too, that seems the way to go.

(To go one step further, would it not be possible to intergrate the steps the
bootstrap performs into configure?  We are back to the standard configure/make
procedure which everybody knows. I, for example, never bootstrapped before.)

> If there aren't any objections to this method, I'll volunteer to take care
> of making the changes. 
Please make it so.

Ruud