Re: Updating top-level autoconf to 2.59

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>]

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