Why is BU still requiring old versions? (was Re: Question about adding ld emulations)

[David O'Brien]

On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 01:16:07PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 06:55:49PM +0200, Marek Michalkiewicz wrote:
> > requires that a few files must be regenerated, and I don't seem to have
> > the right versions of autoconf/automake/libtool/... so it either fails,
..
> In fact they are too new.  Use the copies in (IIRC)
> sources.redhat.com/pub/binutils/*.bz2

When can we stop using 2 year old tools and start using the modern
versions?  If the current versions of these GNU tools are not usable,
why are new versions continued to be released??

More and more other software that bought into the GNU autoconfig method
require the latest versions.  It is getting so one needs 3 versions of
autoconf, 2 versions of automake, 3 versions of gettext, and 2 versions
of libtool installed.

I've asked before, and I don't think anyone has been able to say what is
specifically wrong with the newer autoconf and automake.