* Mark Wielaard wrote on Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:30:15PM CEST:
>
> There is also autogen.sh (since we don't checkin the generated files).
> You will need something like this to accept later libtool versions:
> --- autogen.sh 18 May 2007 20:18:53 -0000 1.20
> +++ autogen.sh 17 Aug 2009 21:28:19 -0000
> @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
> if ${LIBTOOLIZE} --version < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
> libtool_version=`${LIBTOOLIZE} --version | sed
> 's/^.*[^0-9.]\([0-9]\{1,\}\.[0-9.]\{1,\}\).*/\1/'`
> case $libtool_version in
> - 1.5*)
> + 1.5* | 2.[0-9]*)
> have_libtool=true
> ;;
> esac
>
> The rest is fine I think, using a lower version isn't really fatal (is it?)
It should work fine to use newer Autoconf and Automake with older
Libtool versions, yes.
Cheers,
Ralf