is there a way to ensure that at least a certain automake version is used?

[Ed Hartnett]

Howdy all!

I am using automake on netCDF, an open source library for Earth
scientists.

I'm wondering if there is a way to ensure that a certain version of
automake is used? autoconf has a very helpful macro that I can use
like this:
AC_PREREQ([2.59])

which will fail if anything less than autoconf 2.59 is used. Is there
a similar macro for automake?

Thanks!

Ed

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