Automake version check is only done in autogen.sh and not in configure.

diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
index 5a0ab3b173c79745ed226dbf78e2cf3fd1b1de8b..733ac8d04199177bf9fe3620146e60a71cb468af 100755 (executable)
--- a/autogen.sh
+++ b/autogen.sh
@@ -3,6 +3,14 @@
 OSTYPE=`uname -s`
 MACHINE=`uname -m`
 AUTO_MAKE_VERSION=`automake --version | head -1 | awk '{print $4}' | sed -e 's/\.\([0-9]*\).*/\1/'`
+if test $AUTO_MAKE_VERSION -lt 15; then
+    echo ""
+    echo "You need to upgrade to automake version 1.5 or greater."
+    echo "Most distributions have packages available to install or you can"
+    echo "find the source for the most recent version at"
+    echo "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake"
+    exit 1
+fi
 
 echo "Host info: $OSTYPE $MACHINE"
 echo -n " automake: `automake --version | head -1 | awk '{print $4}'`"

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index b7c1a2cff25704e5020a124725bfde763ea8be80..cc7c437c0209f8a2095e7b57f154ddd5334d6899 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -54,18 +54,6 @@ else
     echo "includedir changed to" $includedir "libdir is" $libdir
 fi
          
-# Determine version of automake ... important because of
-# incompatibilities between versions
-AUTO_MAKE_VERSION=`automake --version | head -1 | awk '{print $4}' | sed -e 's/\.\([0-9]*\).*/\1/'`
-if test $AUTO_MAKE_VERSION -lt 15; then\
-    echo ""
-    echo "You need to upgrade to automake version 1.5 or greater."
-    echo "Most distributions have packages available to install or you can"
-    echo "find the source for the most recent version at"
-    echo "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake"
-    exit 1
-fi
-
 # set logging default value
 # with_logging=yes
 AC_ARG_WITH(logging, [  --with-logging          Include logging output (default)])