Re: how to override AUTOMAKE = ... in Makefile

[Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas at urgent dot rug dot ac dot be>]

Hey Richard,

> This appears to work correctly with automake 1.6.1a (current CVS 1.6
> branch). (and autoconf 2.53, if that's relevant).  I'm not sure when the
> fix went in.
> 
> > I would like to know what is the best way to override this so that it also 
> > uses automake-1.5.
> > 
> > Any suggestions ?
> 
> Apart from requiring 1.6.1, you could try putting some kind of hack into
> configure.ac.  Perhaps autogen.sh could pass an value to configure.ac if
> the automake program isn't called "automake", and the automake version
> is less than 1.6, and then that value could be used to set AUTOMAKE.
> If you do this after AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, it will probably work correctly.

I was able to solve it relatively elegantly by doing this :

  AC_ARG_WITH(autoconf,
    AC_HELP_STRING([--with-autoconf],
                   [use a different autoconf for regeneration of 
Makefiles]),
    [
      unset AUTOCONF
      AM_MISSING_PROG(AUTOCONF, ${withval})
      AC_MSG_NOTICE([Using $AUTOCONF as autoconf])
    ])

which I put into an autostars macro.  I should really do an autostars 
release one of these days.

Thomas

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