autogen.sh: prefer to use automake-1.8 if available (avoids accidentally depending on 1.9 features)

20080421125955-53eee-5fda6f1a0877106a3efda15e77ed7e25b93c06ec.gz

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
index d2db5ba25..ce3d8e744 100644
--- a/autogen.sh
+++ b/autogen.sh
@@ -3,7 +3,19 @@ set -e
 
 gtkdocize
 
-autoreconf -i
+if test -n "$AUTOMAKE"; then
+    : # don't override an explicit user request
+elif automake-1.8 --version &>/dev/null && \
+     aclocal-1.8 --version &>/dev/null; then
+    # If we have automake-1.8, use it. This helps to ensure that our build
+    # system doesn't accidentally grow automake-1.9 dependencies.
+    AUTOMAKE=automake-1.8
+    export AUTOMAKE
+    ACLOCAL=aclocal-1.8
+    export ACLOCAL
+fi
+
+autoreconf -i -f
 
 run_configure=true
 for arg in $*; do