From: Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 06:38:39 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: * bin/autoreconf.in (parse_args): Do not pass --no-force to
X-Git-Tag: AUTOCONF-2.57c~26
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6feb338dd087cdedc1f786e5df5db6a9cfb63a9d;p=thirdparty%2Fautoconf.git

* bin/autoreconf.in (parse_args): Do not pass --no-force to
Automake versions prior to 1.8.
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c0126250..d61cc7d4 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2003-08-25  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <adl@gnu.org>
+
+	* bin/autoreconf.in (parse_args): Do not pass --no-force to
+	Automake versions prior to 1.8.
+
 2003-08-25  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>
 
 	* doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): netinet/if_ether.h.
diff --git a/bin/autoreconf.in b/bin/autoreconf.in
index 6880cdd3..aa0f2e28 100644
--- a/bin/autoreconf.in
+++ b/bin/autoreconf.in
@@ -200,7 +200,12 @@ sub parse_args ()
     }
   else
     {
-      $automake .= ' --no-force';
+      # The implementation of --no-force is bogus in all implementations
+      # of Automake up to 1.8, so we avoid it in these cases.  (Automake
+      # 1.8 is the first version where aclocal supports force, hence
+      # the condition.)
+      $automake .= ' --no-force'
+	if $aclocal_supports_force;
     }
   # --debug;
   if ($debug)