Paul Eggert wrote: > On 07/01/2012 04:40 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: >> I would therefore propose (b), that is, to bump the required Autoconf >> version in the DEPENDENCIES file and gnulib-tool to 2.64. > > Given your description of the hassles involved in supporting > older Autoconf versions, this seems like the better way to go. > Thanks for looking into it. > > For what it's worth, Emacs (which is pretty conservative about > this sort of thing) requires Autoconf 2.65 or later.
Thanks for doing that, Bruno. That is a compelling argument to upgrade. I advised to upgrade RHEL6's autoconf from 2.63 to 2.68 over a year ago: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/699622 I hope we're ready to follow through with that, now.