Building binutils 2.23.2; autoconf version problem

Ian Lance Taylor iant@google.com
Sat Apr 20 05:14:00 GMT 2013


On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Flemming H. Sørensen
<flemming.sorensen@pyro-os.org> wrote:
>
> I do wonder, however, what is the reason for this dependency on legacy software?

It's important that every binutils maintainer use precisely the same
versions of autoconf and automake, to avoid introducing subtle bugs in
configure and/or Makefile.in due to using and testing different
versions.

We can upgrade the specific versions being used by just announcing a
plan to do so and testing the upgrade.  It should be straightforward
if you are interested.

Ian



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