Hello Robert,
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 08:53:35PM CEST:
> Hi Ralf. You were right about the autoconf version. I did mean 2.59,
> and today I did upgrade to 2.61, which solved the whole problem. It
> passed every test. I should have ensured my autoconf was current before
> I bothered you, sorry.
Nothing to be sorry about, au contraire. We forgot to adjust the
configure check to check for >= 2.60. I'm applying this patch to
HEAD and branch-1-10.
Thanks again,
Ralf
2007-08-09 Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* configure.ac: Actually require version 2.60 in the test for
Autoconf, and recommend it in the error messages.
* THANKS: Update.
Report by Robert Swafford.
Index: configure.ac
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/automake/automake/configure.ac,v
retrieving revision 1.35
diff -u -r1.35 configure.ac
--- configure.ac 7 Jul 2007 11:23:27 -0000 1.35
+++ configure.ac 9 Aug 2007 19:04:09 -0000
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
# Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
# Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006,
-# 2004, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# 2004, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
am_cv_autoconf_installed=no
fi])
if test "$am_cv_autoconf_installed" = no; then
- AC_MSG_ERROR([Autoconf 2.58 or better is required.
+ AC_MSG_ERROR([Autoconf 2.60 or better is required.
Please make sure it is installed and in your PATH.])
fi
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether autoconf is recent enough], [am_cv_autoconf_version],
[mkdir conftest
-echo 'AC''_PREREQ(2.58)' > conftest/conftest.ac
+echo 'AC''_PREREQ(2.60)' > conftest/conftest.ac
if AM_RUN_LOG([cd conftest && eval $am_AUTOCONF -o /dev/null conftest.ac]);
then
am_cv_autoconf_version=yes
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@
fi
rm -rf conftest])
if test "$am_cv_autoconf_version" = no; then
- AC_MSG_ERROR([Autoconf 2.58 or better is required.])
+ AC_MSG_ERROR([Autoconf 2.60 or better is required.])
fi
# Test for ln. We need use it to install the versioned binaries.
