Simon Josefsson wrote: > Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> writes: > >>> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.61 >>> automake (GNU automake) 1.9.6 >> >> That is because your version of automake is so old. >> Use a newer one, if possible, preferably the latest: automake-1.11 > > Gnulib's DEPENDENCIES says 1.9.6 or later is ok. What features of newer > automake releases are required by gnulib?
Hard to tell without having diagnosed his problem. Maybe none. IMHO, automake-1.9.6 is not just a little bit too old, but prohibitively old, now. Would anyone object to increasing the minimum to automake-1.10?
