Ralf Wildenhues writes:
> * Ben Pfaff wrote on Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 06:33:14PM CEST:
>> As an alternative, could Automake provide an API that allows
>> users to say "if feature X is supported, then expand this
>> configure.ac code"? For example:
>>
>> AM_FEATURE_PREREQ([color-tests],
>>
Hello Ben,
* Ben Pfaff wrote on Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 06:33:14PM CEST:
> As an alternative, could Automake provide an API that allows
> users to say "if feature X is supported, then expand this
> configure.ac code"? For example:
>
> AM_FEATURE_PREREQ([color-tests],
> [AM_INI
Ralf Wildenhues writes:
> I think Automake should provide an API to allow users to say "if the
> Automake version is >= X, then expand this configure.ac code". I think
> that would be general enough (it could use Automake conditionals to
> adjust Makefile.am files, it could check for >= X and no
Hi Jim,
* Jim Meyering wrote on Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 08:29:21AM CEST:
[...]
> systems with automake older than 1.11.
> On those systems, it's fine to ignore or disable these
> two unsupported options.
Yes. Often, automake's rejection of unsupported options is stricter
than it would need to be.
Hi Ralf,
I'd like to use automake-1.11's color-tests option
in libguestfs -- and more importantly, parallel-tests,
but we may have a build-from-clone requirement on
systems with automake older than 1.11.
On those systems, it's fine to ignore or disable these
two unsupported options.
I proposed a
