On 09/24/2009 08:42 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
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?
Fine. After 1.7 the backwards compatibility of automake has improved
greatly.
However, even though GCC and GDB are now using 2.64, I would keep 2.59
as the minimum Autoconf requirement.
Paolo
