Re: [RFC] Update to current automake/autoconf/libtool versions.

Klee Dienes
2002-12-05T18:37:35Z

That sounds fine to me. My main interest here is to make updating to
the most recent
version of the released tools be considered the "standard" thing to do.

On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 01:15 PM, Michael Elizabeth Chastain
wrote:

> Klee Dienes wrote:
>> 1) Specify the versions of autoconf/automake/libtool/gettext by
>> reference to official tarballs from ftp.gnu.org. In general, define
>> the version used to be "the most recent officially released version of
>> each tool".
>
> I'm not a heavy autotools guy, but I do try to maintain a standardized
> build + test enviroment for gdb testing. I agree with the idea of
> referring to official tarballs from ftp.gnu.org. I strongly think that
> the pointer should say "autoconf 2.56", for example, rather than "the
> most recent officialy released version of autoconf".