Re: HEAD cvs autogen.sh

[Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 07/21/2004 05:19:51 AM, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As I've reported it earlier, when using debian and autogen, the  
> default value for automake is 1.4;
>
> It appears that this version of automake is not suitable to  
> build balsa.
>
> The simple fix is to add the following line in the autogen.sh  
> script of the balsa tree:
>
> REQUIRED_AUTOMAKE_VERSION=<required_version>

Hi Jean-Luc!

This by itself didn't work for me, but I don't have gnome-common  
installed--do you?  To make it work, I had to replace 1.4 with  
$REQUIRED_AUTOMAKE_VERSION, globally in macros/autogen.sh.

Also, my setup (FC2) has 1.8, but not 1.7.  I guess we need to  
detect the version; this worked for me:

REQUIRED_AUTOMAKE_VERSION=`automake --version | grep automake |  
cut -d' ' -f4 | cut -d. -f1,2`

but it's kinda ugly (and also pointless--why not use generic  
auto* tools, instead of requiring a specific version?)

Peter