On 18 March 2011 21:03, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 03/18/2011 02:58 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote: >> On 18 March 2011 20:56, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: >>> On 03/18/2011 02:53 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote: >>>> Just now doing a git merge I caught sight of an AC_PREREQ line in one >>>> .m4 file. Is there a built-in way to extract the required versions of >>>> autoconf, automake &c. from an autotools build system? (I can't find >>>> an answer, but there's an awful lot of cool undocumented stuff in >>>> there at present.) >>> >>> autoconf --trace AC_PREREQ >>> >>> and look through that for the largest number. > > As a note of caution, note that just inspecting trace output might not > tell you the whole story. If you use automake 1.11, you will get an > AC_PREREQ of autoconf 2.62 from AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE. But gnulib can be > used with anything as old as autoconf 2.59, provided you are also using > an older automake to go with it (and once you do switch to an older > automake, you will no longer see the AC_PREREQ 2.62 in the trace).
That was timely, I made exactly that mistake, and since there was quite a gap between 2.61 & 2.62, I guess it's worth fixing the minimum in my INSTALL file. Thanks! -- http://rrt.sc3d.org
