mini-freeze of autotools-governed files in GCC and src
Kaveh R. Ghazi
ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu
Sun Aug 23 15:01:00 GMT 2009
From: "Ralf Wildenhues" <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
>> Why request developers ensure this and not bump the AC_PREREQ to make
>> sure?
>
> Toplevel config/override.m4 should already cause failure if you use
> anything other than Autoconf 2.64 (but it doesn't ensure Automake 1.11).
In addition to enforcing the version number, the AC_PREREQ in all the
configure.ac files documents to the reader of the file what version to use.
It's now out of date and a source of possible confusion. I would suggest
either (preferably) updating them all to 2.64 or removing them.
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