Mandrake has a wrapper too:
# Executes the correct autoconf version. # # - defaults to autoconf-2.13 # - runs autoconf-2.5x if it exists and... # - envvar WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5 is set to `1' # -or- # - configure.ac is present # -or- # - `configure.in' contains AC_PREREQ and the value's 3 first letters # are stringwise greater than '2.1' # -or- # - `configure' is already present and was generated by autoconf greater than '2.1' # -or- # - `Makefile.in' was generated by automake-1.6 or superior, which specificall y needs autoconf-2.5x
/ David Hedbor
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2003-01-09 14:40: Subject: autoheader
No, I don't mind the new ideas. It's only the enforcing and version confusion. It's also very hard to use autoconf to find the correct autoconf version, so you're back at /bin/sh stuff.
On my system, I have:
autoconf -> ../lib/autoconf/ac-wrapper.pl autoconf-2.13 autoconf-2.53a autoconf-2.54
It might or might not be a standard, but it should be possible to let run_autoconfig (and configure for Makefile) to check for autoconf-<correct version>.
"autoconf" is a perl script. I haven't investigated it further.
/ Mirar