From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 57878 invoked by alias); 24 Mar 2015 17:02:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 57850 invoked by uid 89); 24 Mar 2015 17:02:52 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: relay1.mentorg.com Received: from relay1.mentorg.com (HELO relay1.mentorg.com) (192.94.38.131) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 17:02:51 +0000 Received: from nat-ies.mentorg.com ([192.94.31.2] helo=SVR-IES-FEM-01.mgc.mentorg.com) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1YaSE3-0004vs-2q from joseph_myers@mentor.com ; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 10:02:47 -0700 Received: from digraph.polyomino.org.uk (137.202.0.76) by SVR-IES-FEM-01.mgc.mentorg.com (137.202.0.104) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.224.2; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 17:02:45 +0000 Received: from jsm28 (helo=localhost) by digraph.polyomino.org.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1YaSE0-0008Hc-8X; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 17:02:44 +0000 Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 17:02:00 -0000 From: Joseph Myers To: Alan Modra CC: "H.J. Lu" , Joel Brobecker , GDB , Binutils , Doug Evans Subject: Re: [PATCH] update automake version to 1.11.6 In-Reply-To: <20150323234643.GH26234@bubble.grove.modra.org> Message-ID: References: <20150311094134.GE9455@vapier> <1426310999-13103-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> <20150319120631.GB4884@adacore.com> <20150319230427.GI4128@vapier> <20150321195953.GA24181@vapier> <20150323124600.GC5438@adacore.com> <20150323234643.GH26234@bubble.grove.modra.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.10 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-SW-Source: 2015-03/txt/msg00799.txt.bz2 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. -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com