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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2010-03-12 14:37:54 -0500
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2010-03-12 14:37:54 -0500
commit77c917ded058a18480685a026622eef94ebb450e (patch)
tree9416490b62eef59af8f469e55f93a71a63d14dea /Makefile.am
parent0794b0d29c7485d10f8e752339b2ed58ffbb5be3 (diff)
downloadlibevent-77c917ded058a18480685a026622eef94ebb450e.tar.gz
Give a better warning for bad automake versions.
If you tried to build with automake-1.6 or earlier, we would previously spit out pages and pages of garbage output. Now, automake should just say "Hey, I'm not new enough for this."
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-AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign
+# 'foreign' means that we're not enforcing GNU package rules strictly.
+# '1.7' means that we need automake 1.7 or later (and we do).
+AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign 1.7
+
ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4
# This is the version info for the libevent binary API. It has three