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

[Klee Dienes <klee@apple.com>]

I actually found the files in ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/binutils to 
be an impediment to using the correct versions.  For a long time I had 
no idea they even existed, and then once I found out about them, it was 
even more confusing, since they weren't the versions that were actually 
used.

I'd argue that we should:

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".

and either

2a) Consider updates to generated files caused by re-configuring with 
the most recent released version of the tools as an "obvious fix".

or (even better)

2b) Configure the CVS repository to run autoreconf using the most 
recent versions whenever a new configure.in/Makefile.in/Makefile.am is 
committed.

The idea here is that it's relatively straightforward for a 
binutils/gdb maintainer to know what to do when updating a 
configuration file (get the most recent version of the tools from the 
FSF and use them), and that we have a natural tendency to stay 
up-to-date with automake/autoconf changes, without having flag-day 
style upgrades become an issue.

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:39:54PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> They're in ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/binutils/ already.  Have been
> for years.