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Re: gEDA-dev: geda/gaf automake/autoconf issues
El lun, 23-10-2006 a las 05:44 -0400, Dan McMahill escribió:
> Igor2 wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Today I've checked out the code from the CVS and tried to compile it. I
> > had automake version 1.4 and the compilation failed in a way that it was
> > not trivial that my automake was too old. Installing automake 1.8 solves
> > the problem. I think autogen.sh scripts should check automake/autoconf
> > versions and warn the user if they are too old.
> >
>
> from the automake manual:
>
>
> If your package relies on a feature or a bug fix introduced in a
> release, you can pass this version as an option to Automake to ensure
> older releases will not be used. For instance, use this in your
> `configure.ac':
>
> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(1.6.1) dnl Require Automake 1.6.1 or better.
> or, in a particular `Makefile.am':
>
> AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = 1.6.1 # Require Automake 1.6.1 or better.
> Automake will print an error message if its version is older than
> the requested version.
>
>
> I haven't tried this to see what, in fact, you get out of running a very
> old automake (like 1.4) when you include these lines.
I added an automake version check in libgeda's autogen.sh. The required
minimum version is set to 1.6.0 .
Thanks,
Carlos
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