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Re: [PATCH] update automake version to 1.11.6
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- Cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>, GDB <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>, Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 17:02:44 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] update automake version to 1.11.6
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On Tue, 24 Mar 2015, Alan Modra wrote:
> Why are we talking about such a small upgrade though? Wouldn't it
> make more sense to move to the latest released autotools? Not for new
> features, but for the bug fixes that have accumulated over the years.
Remember if doing a major update including libtool about the
incompatibility of libtool's notion of sysroots with GCC's, requiring
apparently that libtool commit 3334f7ed5851ef1e96b052f2984c4acdbf39e20c is
reverted from the version of libtool code used.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com