Re: CentOS 7 and %reldir% not replaced?

[Simon Josefsson]

sön 2022-02-20 klockan 21:08 +0100 skrev Bruno Haible:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > your automake version is too old.  %reldir% was introduced in 1.14.
> > from your log:
> > > ---> Package automake.noarch 0:1.13.4-3.el7 will be installed
> 
> Thanks for the analysis. Let me document it (patch below).
> 
> Automake 1.14 was release more than 8.5 years ago. It's a
> reasonable assumption, see     
> https://repology.org/project/automake/versions .

Thanks -- makes sense.  May I suggest the following patch too?  To make
bootstrap complain about too old automake, this would have made it a
bit more easier to understand for me.

/Simon

diff --git a/build-aux/bootstrap b/build-aux/bootstrap
index dc2238f4ad..771ef65d22 100755
--- a/build-aux/bootstrap
+++ b/build-aux/bootstrap
@@ -675,7 +675,7 @@ fi
 # If either is not listed, add it (with minimum version) as a
prerequisite.
 case $buildreq in
   *automake*) ;;
-  *) buildreq="automake 1.9
+  *) buildreq="automake 1.14
 $buildreq" ;;
 esac
 case $buildreq in

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