Re: [PATCH] update automake version to 1.11.6

Joseph Myers
2015-03-24T17:02:52Z

On Tue, 24 Mar 2015, Alan Modra wrote:

> Why are we talking about such a small upgrade though? Wouldn't it
> make more sense to move to the latest released autotools? Not for new
> features, but for the bug fixes that have accumulated over the years.

Remember if doing a major update including libtool about the
incompatibility of libtool's notion of sysroots with GCC's, requiring
apparently that libtool commit 3334f7ed5851ef1e96b052f2984c4acdbf39e20c is
reverted from the version of libtool code used.

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