[PATCH] Autotool improvements.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On Friday 09 October 2009 12:02:37 Marcel Holtmann, you wrote:
> > > Bootstrap script now tries to use explicitly versioned automake, which
> > > makes life easier with scratchbox and friends. Bootstrap also uses
> > > autoreconf instead of explictly running various autotools.
> >
> > As autoreconf already uses those variables, I wonder why not just call it
> > and be done with it.
>
> when I started using the bootstrap stuff we use accross BlueZ, ConnMan,
> oFono etc. the autoreconf was horrible and broken. Let me look into this
> again and see how we can make this more consistent. Especially since
> everybody should use automake-1.11 do get the sexy silent build system.

VLC has been using autoreconf without problem for a while.
We require automake 1.9.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont