From JMarc:

The reason is gettext. The NEWS from version 0.14.7 (we use 0.16.1) says:

* The gettext autoconf macros now assume 'aclocal' from automake 1.8 or newer.

So we should assume 1.8 (and maybe check what this buys us).

git-svn-id: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk@31231 a592a061-630c-0410-9148-cb99ea01b6c8

diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
index c2582165294412fe132a0f706556f357eb441c19..078c0211479c17184e622c602d94f1c4c6818dfa 100755 (executable)
--- a/autogen.sh
+++ b/autogen.sh
@@ -11,17 +11,17 @@ automake_version=`$AUTOMAKE --version 2>/dev/null | head -n 1`
 test "$automake_version" != "" && {
     echo "Using $automake_version"
 } || {
-    echo "LyX requires automake >= 1.5"
+    echo "LyX requires automake >= 1.8"
     exit 1
 }
 
 case $automake_version in
-    *' '1.[5-9]*|*' '1.1[01]*)
+    *' '1.[8-9]*|*' '1.1[01]*)
        ;;
     *)
 
        echo "This automake version is not supported by LyX."
-       echo "LyX only supports automake 1.5 to 1.11."
+       echo "LyX only supports automake 1.8 to 1.11."
        exit 1
        ;;
 esac