On 04/07/16 22:09, Mathieu Lirzin wrote: > Hi, > > Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> writes: > >> On 02/07/16 20:50, Mathieu Lirzin wrote: >>> ping >>> >>> Mathieu Lirzin <m...@gnu.org> writes: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> Since 2011 Automake TESTS_ENVIRONMENT variable is reserved for the >>>> user unless the “older (and discouraged) serial test harness” is used. >>>> See: >>>> >>>> >>>> https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#index-AM_005fTESTS_005fENVIRONMENT >>>> >>>> The first patch makes use of the new AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT >>>> developer-reserved variable, and the second one adds a ‘syntax-check’ >>>> to ensure no rule to preach the good news! ;) >>>> >>>> Thanks, >> >> The patch looks correct but what about backwards compat? >> The DEPENDENCIES files lists automake 1.9.6 (2005) as a dependency. >> >> Should we increase that? Maybe. >> Should we increase that for this? Probably not. > > Automake is a dependency that only matters to developpers. Since Debian > stable has a more recent version and RHEL 7 has one too (I guess), > requiring Automake 1.12 (2012) seems reasonable to me. WDYT?
Yes maybe. I see coreutils bumped the requirement to 1.11.2 for the same reason: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=v8.19-39-g8381e35 but then reverted due to 1.12 being necessary: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=v8.19-131-gcb5ff9d 4 years later it might be time to bump that requirement more widely in gnulib
