dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
AC_INIT(automake.in)

AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(automake, 1.4-p6)

# Find an appropriate tar for use in "dist" targets.  A "best guess"
# is good enough -- if we can't find GNU tar, we don't really care.
AC_CHECK_PROGS(TAR, gnutar gtar tar)
AC_PATH_PROG(PERL, perl)
if test -z "$PERL"; then
   AC_MSG_ERROR([perl not found])
fi
if test -n "`$PERL -v | fgrep 'version 5.001' 2> /dev/null`"; then
   AC_MSG_ERROR([perl 5.001 has bug which causes automake to fail])
fi

# The API version is the base version.  We must guarantee
# compatibility for all releases with the same API version.
# Our current rule is that:
# * All releases, including the prereleases, in an X.Y series
#   are compatible.  So 1.5.1c is compatible with 1.5.
# * Prereleases on the trunk are all incompatible -- 1.5b and 1.5c
#   aren't the same.
APIVERSION=`echo "$VERSION" | sed -e 's/^\([[0-9]]*\.[[0-9]]*[[a-z]]*\).*$/\1/'`
AC_SUBST(APIVERSION)

# A versioned directory, defined here for convenience.
pkgvdatadir="\${datadir}/automake-${APIVERSION}"
AC_SUBST(pkgvdatadir)

# Test for ln.  We need use it to install the versioned binaries.
AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether ln works])
AC_CACHE_VAL([am_cv_prog_ln], [
rm -f conftest conftest.file
: >conftest.file
if ln conftest.file conftest 2>/dev/null; then
  am_cv_prog_ln=ln
else
  am_cv_prog_ln='cp -p'
fi
rm -f conftest conftest.file])
LN="$am_cv_prog_ln"
AC_SUBST([LN])
result=no
test "x$am_cv_prog_ln" = xln && result=yes
AC_MSG_RESULT([$result])

AC_OUTPUT([Makefile automake aclocal m4/amversion.m4:m4/amversion.in m4/Makefile tests/Makefile],
[chmod +x automake aclocal])