automake 1.6 is required, but not automatic

[eugene]

psLib requires automake 1.6 or it fails. automake defaults to 1.4 unless told
otherwise. this can be overridden by the user with the environment varialble
setting WANT_AUTOMAKE=1.6. DEV_NOTES should probably list this prominently. In
addition, or alternatively, aclocal.m4 can include the command
AM_AUTOMAKE_VERSION. see the header of /usr/lib/automake/am-wrapper.pl

(yes, this applies only to the CVS checkout, but it would help future developers...)

[robert.desonia@…]

Wasn't aware that I used any 1.6 specific automake directives, but given the
very poor documentation on automake from the FSF, I'm not surprised.

Modified configure.ac to specify automake 1.6 to be required via:

AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(1.6)

Since I have not seen any problems before specifying the automake version on any
of the machines here (including OSX), I'm not sure if that is really fixing
anything. The automake that comes with modern Fedora and SUSE distro's seem to
work without any help via environment variables.

-rdd

[eugene]

this seems to be resolved with the current automake scripts