On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 01:12:49PM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote:
> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes writes:
> > Enrico> What about autogen.sh in LyX assuming that it will work with
> > Enrico> autoconf 2.59 but will not work with 2.59e ?
>
> The difference between this autotools stuff and gcc is that the autotools
> stuff is used only by developers. Newer versions of gcc can/will be used
> by package maintainers of standard LyX releases.
>
> > Personally, I think we should only discriminate against version that
> > are known to break. But it is just me :)
>
> No, that makes sense to me also. However, writing tests that sh will
> understand isn't trivial. It's easy for us humans to confirm that our
> software meets the bar:
>
> echo "LyX requires automake >= 1.9"
> echo "LyX requires autoconf >= 2.52"
>
> Enabling sh to do so is a difficult problem IMO. I'd suggest that we keep
> with the present system.
Then, why not letting the user decide?
echo "LyX requires autoconf >= 2.52"
read -n 1 -p "Do you want to continue? " ans
echo
if [ "$ans" = "y" -o "$ans" = "Y" ]; then
echo "Ok, keep fingers crossed..."
else
echo "Stopping here, then."
exit 1
fi
--
Enrico
