Re: [autoconf] checking automake version in configure.ac

[Vincent Torri]

On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Eric Blake wrote:

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> According to Ralf Corsepius on 10/6/2009 1:45 AM:
> > > > AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11])
> > >
> > > yes, but...
> > >
> > > > This way, running an insufficient automake on your source files will
> > > > error out.
> > >
> > > ... I don't want that behavior. I just want to add a feature, not to
> > > forbid a user to rebuild the files.
> > Your consideration doesn't make sense.
> >
> > If your package requires a minimum version of automake, then your
> > package can't be rebuilt without a sufficient version of automake,
> > therefore the user must be stopped running his automake.
>
> The desired behavior TOTALLY makes sense (although this is an automake
> question, not an autoconf question)

sorry for that. Actually, i wondered to which list i had to send the 
question.

> - an example is the use of color-tests
> when available, with a clean fallback to no color-tests if an older
> automake was sufficient for everything else.  See this thread on the
> automake list for the same question, and the answer given by the maintainer:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2009-08/msg00035.html
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2009-08/msg00040.html

so:

m4_ifdef([AM_SILENT_RULES], [AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])])

seems the thing to do.

Thank you

Vincent Torri