Re: proposed gnome-common changes

[Dan Winship <danw novell com>]

> With the changes, it is possible to greatly simplify the module specific 
> autogen.sh too.  A typical one might look like this:
> ---- Cut Here ----
> #!/bin/sh
> srcdir=`basename $0`
> [ -z "$srcdir" ] && srcdir=.
> 
> PKG_NAME=mypackage
> REQUIRED_AUTOMAKE_VERSION=1.7

We really ought to change the default REQUIRED_AUTOMAKE_VERSION. Using
1.4 for a default (and not accepting any other) is really annoying.

-- Dan