Ralf Wildenhues 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:
>>
>> AM_FEATURE_PREREQ([color-tests],
>>
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],
> [AM_INI
Ralf Wildenhues 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 for >= X and no
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Jim Meyering wrote on Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 04:20:52PM CEST:
>> I noticed (by inspection, since I was looking at AM_SANITY_CHECK)
>> the unconditional 1-second sleep in coreutils' configure script,
>> and realized that it'd be easy to avoid it on modern systems:
>> either
