IIRC this version checking behavior didn't exist until after v1.4, so people might get weirdness if they are using a pretty old (~1999) version of automake. I wouldn't worry about this though. -Dave On Jun 18, 2009, at 10:42 AM, Dave Goodell wrote:

Stick the version number as one of the options in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE or you can specify it via AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS in the top level Makefile.am. I prefer the first version.

http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Macros

-Dave

On Jun 18, 2009, at 10:38 AM, Pavan Balaji wrote:

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Hi all,

This is just a heads-up that as of r4758, Hydra depends on automake-1.11 or higher. You can download it from here: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.11.tar.gz .

Btw, I'm looking for an option for configure to break if the version doesn't match (something similar to AC_PREREQ for automake). Does someone know what this is?

Thanks,

-- Pavan

-- Pavan Balaji http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~balaji