Re: Update for prerquisite autoconf/automake versions ?

[Dalibor Topic]

Hallo Michael,

Michael Koch wrote:
> Hi list,
>
>
> as you probably know I updated the autoconf/automake stuff in classpath to 
> work with the newest versions seemlessly (autoconf 2.59/automake 1.8.2).
>
> Unfortunately I now found out that its broken with autoconf 2.57. I used a 
> macros that replaced other obsoleted macros in 2.59 but didnt existed in 
> earlier versions.
>
> Currently we require at least 2.53. Should we now update our prerequisites to 
> autoconf 2.59 or should I rework the stuff to work with 2.53 too again ?
>
> Personally I vote for the first solution. This is in my opinion the way to go. 
> End users doesnt have to use this anyway as tarballs contain the generated 
> files already and for developers of the cvs version is easy to update their 
> local version.

I'd second the first solution. Automake 2.59, if it is not already, will 
be part of the major distributions anyway.

cheers,
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