Re: [PATCH] Add new 'AM_PROG_AR' macro, triggering the 'ar-lib' script.

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 08:00:54PM CEST:
> On 09/16/2010 11:56 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >More generally, it either also requires that we bump Automake's version
> >requirement on Autoconf, or we make the "autom4te preselections" test in
> >Autoconf less strict, so that it won't fail with Automake which has the
> >above.  Or move the test to the Automake test suite.
> 
> Didn't we already relax the test at one point to SKIP if the version
> of automake run by the test differs from the version of automake
> used by the developer building autoconf?  In particular:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/commit/?id=87ccb0b79

Indeed.  That means I must go back to a couple of test systems and
find out why I got testsuite failures there ... oh wait, I did bootstrap
Autoconf with that Automake version.  Hmpf.

Thanks,
Ralf