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+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+
+# Try to locate best version of auto*
+# By Michael Pyne <[email protected]>
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2005.
+# This code is public domain. You may use it however you like (including
+# relicensing).
+
+# Emulate the 'which' program.
+sub which
+{
+ my $prog = shift;
+ my @paths = split(/:/, $ENV{'PATH'});
+
+ for $path (@paths)
+ {
+ return "$path/$prog" if -x "$path/$prog";
+ }
+
+ return "";
+}
+
+# Subroutine to determine the highest installed version of the given program,
+# searching from the given paths.
+sub findBest
+{
+ my ($program, @paths) = @_;
+ my $best_version_found = '0'; # Deliberately a string.
+ my %versions;
+ my %minimumVersions = (
+ 'autoconf' => '2.5',
+ 'automake' => '1.6',
+ );
+
+ # Allow user to use environment variable to override search.
+ return $ENV{uc $program} if $ENV{uc $program};
+
+ for $prefix (@paths)
+ {
+ @files = glob "$prefix/$program*";
+ for $file (@files)
+ {
+ # Don't check non-executable scripts.
+ next unless -x $file;
+
+ ($version) = $file =~ /$prefix\/$program-?(.*)$/;
+ $version =~ s/-|\.//g;
+
+ # Special case some programs to make sure it has a minimum version.
+ if (not $version and exists $minimumVersions{$program})
+ {
+ my $min_version = $minimumVersions{$program};
+ my $versionOutput = `$program --version 2>/dev/null | head -n 1`;
+
+ # If we can't run the script to get the version it likely won't work later.
+ next unless $versionOutput;
+
+ # Use number.number for version (we don't need the excess in general).
+ ($versionOutput) = ($versionOutput =~ /(\d\.\d)/);
+
+ # Use lt to do lexicographical comparison of strings (which should be
+ # equivalent and doesn't involve issues with floating point conversions).
+ if (not $versionOutput or $versionOutput lt $min_version)
+ {
+ next;
+ }
+ }
+
+ # If no version suffix then use it in favor of a versioned autotool
+ # since the ever-popular WANT_AUTOFOO should then work (in theory).
+ return $file unless $version;
+
+ # Emulate 'which', and abort if we've already seen this version.
+ next if exists $versions{$version};
+
+ # Save filename of program.
+ $versions{$version} = $file;
+
+ # Use string comparison so that e.g. 253a will be > 253 but < 254.
+ if ($version gt $best_version_found)
+ {
+ $best_version_found = $version;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
+ return $versions{$best_version_found};
+}
+
+# Find an appropriate "which" program for later use by the shell script calling
+# us.
+sub findWhich
+{
+ for $candidate ('type -p', 'which', 'type')
+ {
+ $test = `$candidate sh 2>/dev/null`;
+ chomp $test;
+
+ return $candidate if -x $test;
+ }
+}
+
+# Uses which() to find a program unless the user provided its path in the
+# environment (the upper case program name is searched).
+sub findProgram
+{
+ $suffix = ""; # For use if @_ has only one param.
+ my ($program, $suffix) = @_;
+
+ return $ENV{uc $program} if $ENV{uc $program};
+ return which("$program$suffix");
+}
+
+# SCRIPT STARTS.
+
+# Search in path.
+@paths = split(/:/, $ENV{'PATH'});
+
+# Make sure at least /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin are in this search.
+unshift @paths, '/usr/local/bin' unless grep $_ eq '/usr/local/bin', @paths;
+unshift @paths, '/usr/bin' unless grep $_ eq '/usr/bin', @paths;
+
+$autoconf = findBest('autoconf', @paths);
+($autoconf_suffix) = $autoconf =~ /.*autoconf(.*)$/;
+
+# Find matching autoconf companions.
+$autoheader = findProgram('autoheader', $autoconf_suffix);
+$autom4te = findProgram('autom4te', $autoconf_suffix);
+
+# Get best automake, and look for unsermake to possibly override it.
+$automake = findBest('automake', @paths);
+$unsermake = "";
+# backward compatible: if $UNSERMAKE points to a path, use it
+$unsermake = findProgram('unsermake') if (defined($ENV{'UNSERMAKE'}) and $ENV{'UNSERMAKE'} =~ /\//);
+# new compatible: if it says 'yes', use the one from path
+$unsermake = which('unsermake') if ($ENV{'UNSERMAKE'} ne 'no');
+
+($automake_suffix) = $automake =~ /.*automake(.*)$/;
+
+# Use unsermake if we found it.
+$automake = "$unsermake -c" if $unsermake;
+
+# Find matching automake companions.
+$aclocal = findProgram('aclocal', $automake_suffix);
+
+$which = findWhich();
+
+# Make sure we have all of the needed programs.
+for $i (qw'autoconf autoheader autom4te automake aclocal')
+{
+ unless(${$i})
+ {
+ print "# Unable to find $i!!\n";
+ exit 1;
+ }
+}
+
+# Print results in eval-able form.
+print <<EOF;
+AUTOCONF="$autoconf"
+AUTOHEADER="$autoheader"
+AUTOM4TE="$autom4te"
+
+AUTOMAKE="$automake"
+ACLOCAL="$aclocal"
+
+WHICH="$which"
+
+export AUTOCONF AUTOHEADER AUTOM4TE AUTOMAKE ACLOCAL WHICH
+EOF
+
+exit 0;