Jim Meyering wrote: > > 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?
If have no objection if we encounter an incompatibility with automake 1.9.x. But so far we have none. At this point, bumping the minimum required version would be gratuitous. Bruno