From: Alexandre Vassalotti <alexandre@peadrop.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:33:23 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Merged revisions 74072 via svnmerge from
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Merged revisions 74072 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r74072 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2009-07-17 20:31:06 -0400 (Fri, 17 Jul 2009) | 5 lines

  Add a check to ensure the correct autoconf version is used
  for generating the configure script.

  Original idea by Martin von Löwis.
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diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 2876eb92a2..f503a09ef0 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -6,8 +6,16 @@ dnl NOTE: autoconf 2.64 doesn't seem to work (use 2.61).
 # Set VERSION so we only need to edit in one place (i.e., here)
 m4_define(PYTHON_VERSION, 3.2)
 
+dnl Some m4 magic to ensure that the configure script is generated
+dnl by the correct autoconf version.
+m4_define([version_required],
+[m4_if(m4_version_compare(m4_defn([m4_PACKAGE_VERSION]), [$1]), 0,
+       [],
+       [m4_fatal([Autoconf version $1 is required for Python], 63)])
+])
+version_required(2.61)
+
 AC_REVISION($Revision$)
-AC_PREREQ(2.61)
 AC_INIT(python, PYTHON_VERSION, http://bugs.python.org/)
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([Include/object.h])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADER(pyconfig.h)