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 -- Pavan Balaji http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~balaji From: Aurélien Larcher Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" Date: Sunday, June 7, 2015 at 11:46 AM To: "<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>" 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/8ac6607db3a087cc8986d8124cab2b0930ae31... 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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LARCHER Aurélien | KTH, School of Computer Science and Communication Work: +46 (0) 8 790 71 42 | Lindstedtsvägen 5, Plan 4, 100 44 Stockholm, SWEDEN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] To manage subscription options or unsubscribe: https://lists.mpich.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss