Re: Updating top-level autoconf to 2.59

Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-02-09T16:14:05Z

On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> > Could using autoconf 2.61 have helped?
>
> Yes, but I am unwilling to try migrating more than one thing at a time
> right now. This patch puts all of gcc and src, at long last, on the
> same version of autoconf. Moving the whole tree to 2.61 is a separate
> project.

I see, though frankly I wouldn't consider switching from 2.59 to 2.61 too
much of a project. And certainly much less than doing the 2.13 to 2.59
conversion at the top level. Of course in 2.61 there may be different
bugs than in 2.59, but I gather the new version is not meant to imply any
kind of revolution. Even if there were some subtle problems somewhere,
they should get sorted out as things go by stage 3.

Or is it because of the new structure of install directories?

Maciej