Re: [PATCH] Add new 'AM_PROG_AR' macro, triggering the 'ar-lib' script.

[Eric Blake]

On 09/16/2010 11:56 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> [ adding autoconf-patches ]
>
> * Peter Rosin wrote on Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:50:05AM CEST:
> > --- a/automake.in
> > +++ b/automake.in
>
> > @@ -5242,6 +5262,7 @@ sub scan_autoconf_traces ($)
> >                 AM_GNU_GETTEXT_INTL_SUBDIR =>  0,
> >                 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE =>  0,
> >                 AM_MAINTAINER_MODE =>  0,
> > +               AM_PROG_AR =>  0,
> >                 AM_PROG_CC_C_O =>  0,
> >                 AM_SILENT_RULES =>  0,
> >                 _AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE =>  1,
>
> This requires updating of Autoconf.  I'm checking the following in
> there.
>
> More generally, it either also requires that we bump Automake's version
> requirement on Autoconf, or we make the "autom4te preselections" test in
> Autoconf less strict, so that it won't fail with Automake which has the
> above.  Or move the test to the Automake test suite.

Didn't we already relax the test at one point to SKIP if the version of 
automake run by the test differs from the version of automake used by 
the developer building autoconf?  In particular:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/commit/?id=87ccb0b79

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