[RFC] Update to current automake/autoconf/libtool versions.

[Klee Dienes]

As long as the versions of the tools are specified by a version string 
referencing an official version in README-maintainer-mode, and not by 
"whatever version is on sourceware.cygnus.com", I'm happy.

In practice I can't imagine there would be a problem with versions 
disappearing from the FSF site before we had upgraded to the current 
version (the current autoconf repository has versions of autoconf going 
back to 1996).   But if that's a concern, we can always replicate 
official FSF releases to a local directory and cache them there.

On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 01:58 PM, Doug Evans wrote:

> Klee Dienes writes:
>> I'd argue that we should:
>>
>> 1) Specify the versions of autoconf/automake/libtool/gettext by
>> reference to official tarballs from ftp.gnu.org.
>
> This places a requirement on the maintainers of ftp.gnu.org
> to not delete said tarballs until binutils has been updated.
> I dont' think you or they want that kind of coupling.
> Better to uncouple things and have your own tarballs.
> Then you can upgrade according to your schedule, not theirs.