Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] postgresql fails to build

[Volker Grabsch]

Volker Grabsch schrieb:
> Tony Theodore schrieb:
> > On 13 March 2012 17:43, Santiago Germino <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Yes, I've forced it to 2.68 and it worked flawlessly. Is it possible
> > > to include something like AC_PREREQ(2.64) to force the debian wrapper
> > > script (and parhaps others) to choose a suitable version or fail with
> > > a useful error description?
[...]
> > Failing early is certainly possible and may be as simple as writing a
> > small configure.ac that checks our requirements. Most of the
> > requirements are fairly common and probably already have AC macros for
> > version testing. It's not something I've looked at though.
> 
> There is already such a test in our main Makefile. However,
> it justs checks for existence of various tools, not for their
> versions.

Okay, I just added a version check to "make check-requirements"
for Autoconf and Automake. It is just a simple regex check, and
may be replaced with something more elaborate in the future.

    http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/mingw-cross-env/rev/0cb57f323a5b

Feel free to add more tests. However, I think we should only
check versions which are not already ensured by the installation
commands. Otherwise we'll have to maintain lots of nasty
version regexes.


Regards,
Volker

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