Hi Jim,
* Jim Meyering wrote on Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 08:29:21AM CEST:
[...]
systems with automake older than 1.11.
On those systems, it's fine to ignore or disable these
two unsupported options.
Yes. Often, automake's rejection of unsupported options is stricter
than it would need to be.
Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de writes:
I think Automake should provide an API to allow users to say if the
Automake version is = X, then expand this configure.ac code. I think
that would be general enough (it could use Automake conditionals to
adjust Makefile.am files, it could check
Hello Ben,
* Ben Pfaff wrote on Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 06:33:14PM CEST:
As an alternative, could Automake provide an API that allows
users to say if feature X is supported, then expand this
configure.ac code? For example:
AM_FEATURE_PREREQ([color-tests],
Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de writes:
* Ben Pfaff wrote on Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 06:33:14PM CEST:
As an alternative, could Automake provide an API that allows
users to say if feature X is supported, then expand this
configure.ac code? For example:
Hi Jim,
* Jim Meyering wrote on Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 08:29:21AM CEST:
[...]
systems with automake older than 1.11.
On those systems, it's fine to ignore or disable these
two unsupported options.
Yes. Often, automake's rejection of unsupported options is stricter
than it would need to be.
Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de writes:
I think Automake should provide an API to allow users to say if the
Automake version is = X, then expand this configure.ac code. I think
that would be general enough (it could use Automake conditionals to
adjust Makefile.am files, it could check
Hello Ben,
* Ben Pfaff wrote on Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 06:33:14PM CEST:
As an alternative, could Automake provide an API that allows
users to say if feature X is supported, then expand this
configure.ac code? For example:
AM_FEATURE_PREREQ([color-tests],
Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de writes:
* Ben Pfaff wrote on Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 06:33:14PM CEST:
As an alternative, could Automake provide an API that allows
users to say if feature X is supported, then expand this
configure.ac code? For example:
Hi Ralf,
I'd like to use automake-1.11's color-tests option
in libguestfs -- and more importantly, parallel-tests,
but we may have a build-from-clone requirement on
systems with automake older than 1.11.
On those systems, it's fine to ignore or disable these
two unsupported options.
I proposed a
