Automake/Autoconf versions

[Brad Hards]

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On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 12:30 pm, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> uhm, thats bad indeed. I've never seen that though. I don't know offhand if
> there is any documented/guaranteed way to enforce proper order.
Seems to only be a problem on 2.52. autoconf 2.53, with either
automake 1.6.3 or automake 1.7.6, produces a good config.h.

How about the following change to kde-common/admin/acinclude.m4.in:
@@ -1700,9 +1703,9 @@ dnl and $(kde_includes) will be the kdeh
 dnl ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 dnl
 AC_DEFUN([AC_BASE_PATH_KDE],
 [
- -AC_PREREQ([2.13])
+AC_PREREQ([2.53])
 AC_REQUIRE([KDE_CHECK_STL])
 AC_REQUIRE([AC_PATH_QT])dnl
 AC_REQUIRE([KDE_CHECK_LIB64])

and the following change to developer.kde.org/build/compile_cvs.html:
@@ -10,11 +10,10 @@ guaranteed to compile, let alone run cor
 <h2>Requirements</h2>
 <p>To compile KDE you need:</p>
 <ul>
 <li><a href="ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/source/">Qt 3.2.0 or greater</a></li>
- -<li><a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/automake/">Automake 1.5 or 1.6</a>
- - and <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/autoconf/">Autoconf 2.52, 2.53 or
- -2.54</a></li>
+<li><a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/automake/">Automake 1.5 or later</a>
+ and <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/autoconf/">Autoconf 2.53 or later</a></li>
 <li>a C++ compiler which supports exceptions, preferably
 <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/gcc-2.95.3.html">gcc-2.95.x</a>,
 <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.1/">gcc-3.1</a> or
 <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.2/">gcc-3.2</a>. </li>

Does this looks like a reasonable solution?

Brad
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