Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org> writes: > > Paul Eggert wrote on 2006-07-09: > > While bootstrapping Bison I noticed that gnulib-tool assumes Autoconf > > versions 2.57 through 2.59. But Bison assumes 2.60. On the theory > > that gnulib-tool should assume the latest stable version, and you > > can copy onceonly by hand if you want an earlier one > > This theory can damage acceptance of gnulib. Instead, I'm asking to leave > people some choice, in order to leave them the freedom to decide _when_ they > want to upgrade to a newer autoconf.
Would it be worth grepping configure.ac, and if you detect AC_PREREQ([2.60]), having that imply --assume-autoconf=2.60? -- Eric Blake
