On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 00:25, Vincent Torri<[email protected]> wrote:
> Is it possible to add AM_SILENT_RULES only when automake version is >= 1.11, > that is is there a good way to retrieve the version of automake in > configure.ac ? Something like: > > AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(1.6 dist-bzip2) > if test $AUTOMAKE_CURRENT_VERSION -ge 1.1 ; then > AM_SILENT_RULES > fi > > I think that i can get it by using sed on what is returned by 'automake > -version', but i would prefer an "autotools" way The best way I've found, from Ralf's recommendations, to use an autotools feature only if it is available is to use the m4_ifdef macro, for example, adding the following to my projects configure.ac uses the silent build rules, from automake-1.11, if appropriate: m4_ifdef([AM_SILENT_RULES],[AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])],) this is not in production yet, just in the development git repo, so YMMV but I have used this technique for other autoconf and automake macros without issue. Cheers Adam _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
