Re: 2.4 Release in 24hrs

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Chuck, Peter, Automakers,

On 22 Sep 2010, at 05:02, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Peter Rosin wrote:
>> Just a friendly ping, but only just now I pushed a change to the
>> 'compile' script in automake and would like the new version in
>> the release if it's not too much to ask for.  Thanks!
> 
> Errr...is that kosher?  I thought libtool was only supposed to ship the
> scripts provided by released versions of automake, not git head
> copies...  Otherwise, if I autoreconf the libtool source archive, then I
> will downgrade 'compile' et al unless I take special steps.

I don't recall having done so in a while but, according to bootstrap:

# It is okay for the bootstrap process to require unreleased autoconf
# or automake, as long as any released libtool will work with at least
# the newest stable versions of each.  Generally, newer versions offer
# better features, and configure.ac documents oldest version of each
# required for bootstrap (AC_PREREQ, and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE).

And in the release template in HACKING:

You will then need to have recent (possibly as yet unreleased) versions
of Automake and Autoconf installed to bootstrap the checked out
sources yourself.

So, I will install git automake at the front of my PATH, and if the
release process works, then I'll go ahead and use it for the release.

Automake gurus:

Is there a better way to save rebootstrappers from accidental
downgrade than specifying AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11a]) in libtool's
configure.ac?  Pity Automake doesn't use gnulibs `git-version-gen' so
that I could specify the particular revision with the compile script
patch that we want at libtool bootstrap time.

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (address@hidden)

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