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From: Dario Alcocer <alcocer AT helixdigital DOT com>
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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:51:58 -0700
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Subject: Re: Autotools; new versions
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>>>>> "Earnie" == Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com> writes:

    Earnie> I see the magic wrapper being nothing more than reading
    Earnie> the configure.in or configure.ac to get the AC_PREREQ
    Earnie> value and creating the appropriate symlinks to the correct
    Earnie> versions before executing the tool.  BTW, I just looked at
    Earnie> the configure.in in newlib and the AC_PREREQ value is
    Earnie> already 2.5.

I think an improvement on the symlink solution would be to incorporate
Chuck Wilson's suggestion of installing the newer autotools into a
separate prefix.  Then, the wrapper script could check AC_PREREQ, and
based on what it finds, could directly 'exec' the correct version of
automake or autoconf.  If necessary, the wrapper script could also
modify PATH for the automake/autoconf child processes.

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Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc.
alcocer AT helixdigital DOT com -- http://www.helixdigital.com