Automake Manual pg. 113 qutestion

[Arthur Schwarz]

Win7-64-bit
Cygwin
Automake 1.14.1

The example given on the page has:

% cat configure.ac
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AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE([tap-driver.sh])

 o o o

% cat Makefile.am
TEST_LOG_DRIVER = env AM_TAP_AWK='$(AWK)' $(SHELL) \
     $(top_srcdir)/build-aux/tap-driver.sh

 o o o

% cp PREFIX/share/automake-APIVERSION/tap-driver.pl .

Do you mean

% cp /PREFIX/share/automake-APIVERSION/tap-driver.sh .

There is no reference in your example to tap-driver.pl in Makefile.am or
configure.ac.

On my cygwin system there are several automakes (automake-1.5 automake-1.7
automake-1.9 automake-1.4 automake-1.6 automake-1.8 automake-1.10
automake-1.11 automake-1.12 automake-1.13 automake-1.14) which allows (I
suspect) inconsistencies between versions to be best accommodated by
selecting a version of choice (?). In consequence the tap-driver.sh
reference is version specific (automake-*/). Again on my system, there is no
automake-APIVERSION. So, is this access path specific to Unix* or is it no
longer relevant?

As a note, shouldn't examples be explained?

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