Re: Minimum requirements for new builds

[Rik]

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> Subject:
> Re: gnulib and automake
> From:
> Jaroslav Hajek <address@hidden>
> Date:
> Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:21:04 +0100
> To:
> "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden>
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> To:
> "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden>
> CC:
> octave maintainers mailing list <address@hidden>
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> First thoughts (from a first-time libtool&automake user):
> It would be nice to specify the versions needed. I tried with my
> system autoconf 2.61, automake 1.10 and libtool 1.5.26 and build
> failed complaining that automake 1.11 is required. I compiled autoconf
> 2.64 & automake 1.11 and tried again, but this time I got weird
> messages about AC_PROG_LIBTOOL missing in configure.ac
> <http://configure.ac>. Adding it there didn't help though. I finally
> installed built also libtool 2.2.6a and everything went OK.
>
> I think it would be nice to discover the minimum required levels.
>
> So my working config is
> autoconf 2.64 + automake 1.11 + libtool 2.2.6a
> but that does not help anything since these are all newest versions.
> What's yours?
These versions were worked out during the initial testing period.
Automake >= 1.11
Libtool >= 2.2.2
Autoconf >= 2.6.0

The file configure.ac contains checks for all three program versions. 
The real question is why they didn't assert a warning when you tried to
compile with older versions.

--Rik