Making Makefile.cvs run on gentoo-1.4rc1

[Rik Hemsley]

#if Michael Matz
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> > @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ check_autotool_versions()
> >  {
> >  AUTOCONF_VERSION=`$AUTOCONF --version | head -1`
> >  case $AUTOCONF_VERSION in
> > -  Autoconf*2.5* | autoconf*2.5* ) : ;;
> > +  autoconf*2.5* | Autoconf*2.5* | autoconf*2.5* ) : ;;
>
> Ok, I admit it, I'm blind.  But to me "autoconf*2.5*" and
> "autoconf*2.5*" look the same.
>
> > @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ esac
> >
> >  AUTOHEADER_VERSION=`$AUTOHEADER --version | head -1`
> >  case $AUTOHEADER_VERSION in
> > -  Autoconf*2.5* | autoheader*2.5* ) : ;;
> > +  autoconf*2.5* | Autoconf*2.5* | autoheader*2.5* ) : ;;
>
> Sure?  The thing is, that the usual output from autoheader is:
> autoheader (GNU Autoconf) 2.53.
>
> So either a test for "autoheader*2.5*" or "Autoconf*2.5*" is
> enough... Hey wait, the "Autoconf" one is anyway wrong.  It should
> read "*Autoconf*2.5*" (the beginning '*' is missing).

Oops, half asleep. That bit of the patch is pointless :) I don't know
how I came to do that stuff.

> > @@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ checkAutoconf()
> >      AUTOCONF="`$WHICH autoconf-2.5x`"
> >    elif test -x "`$WHICH autoconf-2.53`" ; then
> >      AUTOCONF="`$WHICH autoconf-2.53`"
> > +  elif test -x "`$WHICH autoconf-2.53a`" ; then
> > +    AUTOCONF="`$WHICH autoconf-2.53a`"
>
> Hahaha.  Another "version", how funny.

Yep. Symlinks fix it, but this is probably easier for now.

Rik

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