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[Eric Seppanen]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 12:26:20PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:

> I shall in turn check in a script, cvs-bootstrap.sh, that calls these
> auto* tools in the right order to reinstantiate all these files.
> 
> Note, I'm using autoconf 2.54 and automake 1.6.3 here.

You might want to make your script check for the existence of a binaries 
in the path called "autoconf-2.53" (also "autoheader-2.53, etc), and 
"automake-1.5".  That's how they're installed on redhat 7.x machines.  If 
you call "autoconf" you get 2.13.

If you wanted to be really clever you could check the output of "autoconf 
--version" and print a verbose message about what's wrong, how to fix it, 
or maybe just recommend that the user grab a tarball instead.