Re: [PATCH 1/6] Require Automake 1.11.1 for Libtool, enable color-tests.

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hallo Ralf,

On 22 Aug 2010, at 17:56, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> (LTDL_SUBDIR_LIBOBJS): Remove now-obsolete conditional and
> feature test for Autoconf 2.59 and Automake 1.9.x workaround.
> * Makefile.am: Simplify accordingly.
> * bootstrap: Remove obsolete WORKING_LIBOBJ_SUPPORT workarounds
> for Autoconf 2.59 and Automake 1.9.6.

Earlier comments aside, I'm very happy to throw away a requirement
for 7 and 5 year old Autoconf and Automake (resp) under any
circumstances.  So this part is good with me already!

> * configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Require 1.11.1.  Enable
> color-tests.

I'm still a little worried that the Automake 1.11.1 requirement
might leak out of 'required to bootstrap' and into 'required to
use' however, which is why I'd like to test it some more to
convince myself that I'm just being paranoid :)

I wonder whether it is possible to write a test that looks for
the oldest Automake and Autoconf we declare our support for,
and rerun the relevant tests with them? That would have
caught several of the errors I made with the m4sh patches I
submitted over the last couple of months...

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (address@hidden)

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