Updating top-level autoconf to 2.59

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 05:39:27PM +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>  Sure -- I use a script like this for regenerating all the scripts:

That's not what I meant.  There's just too many cases that need to be
tested.  Anyway, you're welcome to do it now that the top level has
moved up :-)  I'm out of time for the moment.

>  BTW, do we still want to carry local copies of severely obsolete libtool 
> scripts?  I have had success with libtool 1.5.22 and GCC 4.1.1 after a 
> moderate amount of work (mostly shuffling bits around; libjava/ was the 
> most involving part) -- if there is interest in upgrading (which might 
> help some people with less common configurations) I could port them to the 
> trunk sooner rather than later.

I believe the plan was to upgrade top level configure first, then
libtool and automake (I don't remember if they were supposed to be done
together or in a particular order).  Definitely I want to remove the
libtool fork.  But talk about a change needing a lot of testing...

Your patches would definitely be welcome.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery