Re: Automake version issue in enchant release-2-2-2

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On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Kathiravelu Pradeeban
<kk.pradeeban@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Dom and others,
> In the latest stable release of Enchant
> (http://svn.abisource.com/enchant/tags/release-2-2-2/), the version
> check of enchant needs a fix to make it work with automake-1.10+.
>
> pradeeban@pradeeban:~/programs/abiword/enchant/release-2-2-2$ sh autogen.sh
> automake (GNU automake) 1.11.1
> Error: you need automake 1.4 or later.  Please upgrade.
>
>
> Is it possible to quickly apply the fix given below (borrowed from the
> autogen.sh of the enchant trunk) to the tags of the stable releases,
> as most of the devs will be trying to build the tag releases with the
> later versions of automake? Let me know if there are some better
> alternatives.
>
>
> Index: autogen.sh
> ===================================================================
> --- autogen.sh  (revision 29810)
> +++ autogen.sh  (working copy)
> @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
>
>  rm -f autogen.err
>
> -automake --version | perl -ne 'if (/\(GNU automake\) ([0-9].[0-9])/)
> {print;  if ($1 < 1.4) {exit 1;}}'
> +automake --version | perl -ne 'if (/\(GNU automake\)
> (([0-9]+).([0-9]+))/) {print; if ($2 < 1 || ($2 == 1 && $3 < 4)) {exit
> 1;}}'
>
>  if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
>     echo "Error: you need automake 1.4 or later.  Please upgrade."
>
>
>
> Thank you.
> Regards,
> Pradeeban.
> --
> Kathiravelu Pradeeban.
> Software Engineer.
> WSO2 Inc.
>
> Blog: [Llovizna] http://kkpradeeban.blogspot.com/
>

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