From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16705 invoked by alias); 11 Apr 2002 22:00:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 16664 invoked by uid 22784); 11 Apr 2002 22:00:11 -0000 From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: cygnus.gdb Subject: Re: Why autoconf 2.13? Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 15:00:00 -0000 Organization: Red Hat Inc. Message-ID: <87lmbtoq9r.fsf@creche.redhat.com> References: <200204110039.g3B0dCT03033@fred.ninemoons.com> Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com NNTP-Posting-Host: cse.sfbay.redhat.com X-Trace: cronkite.cygnus.com 1018561861 12513 205.180.230.236 (11 Apr 2002 21:51:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: postmaster@cygnus.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Apr 2002 21:51:01 GMT X-Attribution: Tom X-Zippy: While you're chewing, think of STEVEN SPIELBERG'S bank account.. This will have the same effect as two ``STARCH BLOCKERS''! X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.5 To: gdb@sources.redhat.com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup cygnus.gdb X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00184.txt.bz2 >>>>> "DJ" == DJ Delorie writes: DJ> We don't automatically start using newer support tools just DJ> because they've been released. We need a compelling reason to DJ> force all the users to upgrade their machines, and we haven't seen DJ> one yet. Doing it will let us use a newer automake, which in turn will let us remove a bunch of hacks from various Makefile.am's. Also it will mean that libgcj won't need to continue using its own hacked automake. The big problem is just that nobody with the expertise has the time (or maybe interest :-). Tom