Check automake/autoconf version in configure script?

It doesn't make any sense to check for the automake version at configure time. The configure script is run long after automake, and may be running on a box on which automake is not installed at all. Write your configure.Ac (not configure.

In) to use modern automake. The developer who runs autoconf to generate the configure script will need to have modern automake installed. The user who invokes the configure script will not need to have any of the autotools installed at all.

For testing the autoconf version I think something like this will work. M4_version_prereq ( 1.10, m4_rename_force(glibcxx_PRECIOUS,_AC_ARG_VAR_PRECIOUS), m4_rename(glibcxx_PRECIOUS,_AC_ARG_VAR_PRECIOUS) ) I don't know how to do the same for automake.

Does not seem to work. No syntax errors or anything, but it gives me the error that I would usually get if just using m4_rename. – Michael P.

Jan 24 '10 at 23:40.

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