Merge from emacs-23; up to 2010-06-16T23:27:20Z!jay.p.belanger@gmail.com.

[bpt/emacs.git] / autogen.sh

diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
index ce742a9..d15817d 100755 (executable)
--- a/autogen.sh
+++ b/autogen.sh
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 ### Code:
 
 ## Tools we need:
+## Note that we respect the values of AUTOCONF etc, like autoreconf does.
 progs="autoconf automake"
 
 ## Minimum versions we need:
@@ -46,7 +47,8 @@ automake_min=1.11
 ## Also note that we do not handle micro versions.
 get_version ()
 {
-    $1 --version 2>&1 | sed -n '1 s/.* \([1-9][0-9\.]*\).*/\1/p'
+    ## Remove eg "./autogen.sh: line 50: autoconf: command not found".
+    $1 --version 2>&1 | sed -e '/not found/d' -n -e '1 s/.* \([1-9][0-9\.]*\).*/\1/p'
 }
 
 ## $1 = version string, eg "2.59"
@@ -71,7 +73,14 @@ minor_version ()
 ## Return 3 for unexpected error (eg failed to parse version).
 check_version ()
 {
-    have_version=`get_version $1`
+    ## Respect eg $AUTOMAKE if it is set, like autoreconf does.
+    uprog=`echo $1 | sed 'y/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/'`
+
+    eval uprog=\$${uprog}
+
+    [ x"$uprog" = x ] && uprog=$1
+
+    have_version=`get_version $uprog`
 
     [ x"$have_version" = x ] && return 1