gdb and ancient GNU autotools

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph Myers via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org> writes:

Joseph> A reminder: mixing a libtool update into an autoconf/automake update would 
Joseph> be a bad idea, a libtool update is likely a lot harder, since (a) the 
Joseph> libtool version used is very old (reportedly based on upstream commit 
Joseph> 2c9c38d8a12eb0a2ce7fe9c3862523026c3d5622)

I wonder whether we could get rid of libtool.

The host OS landscape is a lot less varied than when it was written.
Many of the problem Unix variants are dead now.  Perhaps libtool doesn't
provide all that much value.

Tom