Forcing the use of automake 1.7

Donnie Berkholz spyderous at gentoo.org
Wed May 18 19:44:39 PDT 2005


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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.

Gentoo's default to using the _latest_ version available, not the
oldest, as of a few months ago. So you'll get 1.9 instead of 1.7.

$ automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.9.5

Thanks,
Donnie
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