Re: Autotools requirements are too recent

2018-08-24 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, 2018-08-24 at 19:46 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > $ autoreconf -f -i > configure.ac:35: error: require Automake 1.16.1, but have 1.15.1 > autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1 > > Please consider dropping version requirements. I'm working on Fedora > 28. Fedora is know for havin

Re: Autotools requirements are too recent

2018-08-24 Thread Martin Dorey
I did warn you. > Fedora is know for having some of the most up to date tools. It must indeed be a cold day in hell, as I used automake 1.16.1 from Debian Buster. > there's no hope it can build where a newer GNU Make is truly needed Perhaps the widespread lack of this automake is what's b