From: Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:37:54 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Give a better warning for bad automake versions.
X-Git-Tag: release-2.0.5-beta~78^2~1
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=77c917ded058a18480685a026622eef94ebb450e;p=libevent

Give a better warning for bad automake versions.

If you tried to build with automake-1.6 or earlier, we would
previously spit out pages and pages of garbage output.  Now, automake
should just say "Hey, I'm not new enough for this."
---

diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index c2732d0a..b9791304 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign
+# 'foreign' means that we're not enforcing GNU package rules strictly.
+# '1.7' means that we need automake 1.7 or later (and we do).
+AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign 1.7
+
 ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4
 
 # This is the version info for the libevent binary API.  It has three