Re: Updating top-level autoconf to 2.59

Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-02-09T17:53:23Z

On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> 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.

I'll have a look.

> 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...

Of course testing is needed. But my feeling is keeping jumps between
versions of auxiliary tools as small as possible should give us less
breakage at a time. I think it may be quite a reasonable idea to check
whether the tools might be updated every time we are in stage 1.

> Your patches would definitely be welcome.

OK, I'll raise the priority for this task. At least problems that I have
already discovered will be known if not fixed this way.

Maciej