From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:21:41 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: configure: report TeX version in config.log
X-Git-Tag: v1.11.2b~18^2~13
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e73061d354f6b82895ce9d439e8838a1f2da5d40;p=thirdparty%2Fautomake.git

configure: report TeX version in config.log

* configure.ac: If possible, report the version of the selected
TeX program; this should render the logs more informative.
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c8c7b669f..8e3333015 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2011-12-21  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+	configure: report TeX version in config.log
+	* configure.ac: If possible, report the version of the selected
+	TeX program; this should render the logs more informative.
+
 2011-12-22  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 
 	maint: snapshots from `maint' are still development snapshots
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 8b1d6851f..d9339d2df 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -100,6 +100,10 @@ AC_SUBST([PERL_THREADS])
 
 # The test suite will skip some tests if tex is absent.
 AC_CHECK_PROG([TEX], [tex], [tex])
+# Save details about the selected TeX program in config.log.
+# Redirect input from /dev/null, as TeX might otherwise hang waiting
+# for input from the terminal.
+AM_RUN_LOG([$TEX --version </dev/null])
 
 # Generate man pages.
 AM_MISSING_PROG([HELP2MAN], [help2man])