Hi,

We needed some fixes in automake-1.15, so the upgrade was not arbitrary.

Having said that, that only introduces a dependency for developers.  Users who download the tarball shouldn't need automake (or any of the autotools).

  -- Pavan

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From: Aurélien Larcher
Reply-To: "discuss@mpich.org"
Date: Sunday, June 7, 2015 at 11:46 AM
To: "<discuss@mpich.org>"
Subject: [mpich-discuss] Automake version in MPICH 3.1.4

Hi,

I just noticed that the following commit on 2015-02-09:

http://git.mpich.org/mpich.git/commit/8ac6607db3a087cc8986d8124cab2b0930ae31ae

adds automake >= 1.15 requirement in autogen.sh

Is this fix really necessary for general platforms or is it platform specific ?

Does it not seem a bit too drastic to force a dependency on a core package released on 2015-01-05 (a month before or so) just to get a fix which is not mpich dependent ?

Thank you in avance !

Best regards

Aurélien

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