Forcing the use of automake 1.7

[Daniel Stone]

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 08:53:12PM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> Since we're requiring automake 1.7, I'd like to force it to run.  The autotool 
> wrapper scripts from Mandrake (which Gentoo also uses) end up using 1.5 with 
> no further instruction, which is broken.
> 
> There are a few options for this:
> 
> - "export WANT_AUTOMAKE=1.7".  This is specific to the mandrake wrapper but
>   has the advantage of actually working.

Unfortunately this is no good for Debian/Ubuntu, Red Hat, etc.

> - "export AUTOMAKE=automake-1.7".  This seems to be the preferred way of
>   forcing a version according to the autotool docs, but doesn't work.  aclocal
>   is still run as the system default version, so automake later fails like so:
>     configure.ac:3: your implementation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE comes from an
>     configure.ac:3: old Automake version.  You should recreate aclocal.m4
>     configure.ac:3: with aclocal and run automake again.
>   which is absurd.

export ACLOCAL=aclocal-1.7

> - Some configure.ac macro to force the automake version.  The docs say this
>   should work if you pass a version number to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, but (once
>   again) that doesn't actually work, it'll still run 1.5 just to spite me.

\o/.  I thought that was supposed to work -- maybe it's just that the
standard wrapper respects it, and Mandrake/Gentoo's does not.

> I'm happy to just add the WANT_AUTOMAKE to autogen.sh everywhere, but I wonder 
> if there's a cleaner solution.

The ideal thing would be to see why the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE thing is
failing, and fix it.
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