* Jason Kraftcheck wrote on Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 05:25:10PM CEST: > I would like to enable some of the options new to version 1.11 of automake > (color-tests, silent-rules, & parallel-tests.) However, many of the people > I work with are still using version 1.10. I had hoped that 1.10 would just > ignore unrecognized options, as the options I wanted to add are not > essential to the build process. Unfortunately, automake fails when it > encounters unrecognized options. Is there some trick I could use to > conditionally add the options if they are supported?
Unfortunately, we don't have a macro yet to ask automake whether some version is supported; that is on the TODO list; see here for some discussion: <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.general/10933> For features introduced with 1.11, you should be able to workaround like this: m4_ifdef([AM_SILENT_RULES], [AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([silent-rules parallel-tests color-test ...])], [AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([...])]) Cheers, Ralf
