Re: Bug in CVS bootstrap with Automake 1.7

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Scott James Remnant wrote:
>
> I'm going to see whether we can hack around this, but to be honest, I
> don't see any problem with requiring 1.8 for our bootstrap now -- it
> significantly reduces the size of our tar.gz

I don't see any problem with this requirement either.  Perhaps some
Linux distribution maintainers would disagree.  Linux distributions
should be encouraged to use and provide the latest auto* tools.

Unlike fine wine, old software does not improve with time.

Bob
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