Note on auto* versions

Wed Mar 23 23:07:00 GMT 2005

Tom Tromey wrote:
> Folks --
>> Today I noticed that libjava/aclocal.m4 was built with automake 1.9.5.
> This is incorrect -- at the moment the entire tree has standardized on
> 1.9.3, and we shouldn't use different versions unilaterally. Having
> all the subdirectories use a single version took a lot of work and is
> an important property to preserve for maintainers' sanity. For future
> reference, the version to use is documented in gcc/doc/install.texi.
>
Is there any way to specify the exact version of automake required in 
Makefile.am so that if you are using the wrong version you get an error?
I am guessing that the answer is no, otherwise we would already be doing it.
David Daney