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From: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu>
To: "Ralf Wildenhues" <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Cc: <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>, 	<binutils@sourceware.org>,
		<gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: mini-freeze of autotools-governed files in GCC and src
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:48:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <FCB8F149E65B4CF4BDD6B2A71D832F59@glap> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090823140401.GA13304@gmx.de>

From: "Ralf Wildenhues" <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

>> Why request developers ensure this and not bump the AC_PREREQ to make
>> sure?
>
> Toplevel config/override.m4 should already cause failure if you use
> anything other than Autoconf 2.64 (but it doesn't ensure Automake 1.11).

In addition to enforcing the version number, the AC_PREREQ in all the 
configure.ac files documents to the reader of the file what version to use. 
It's now out of date and a source of possible confusion.  I would suggest 
either (preferably) updating them all to 2.64 or removing them.



      reply	other threads:[~2009-08-23 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-22 15:45 Ralf Wildenhues
2009-08-22 19:10 ` NightStrike
2009-08-22 19:13 ` Ralf Wildenhues
2009-08-23 14:04   ` Kaveh R. GHAZI
2009-08-23 14:22     ` Ralf Wildenhues
2009-08-23 15:48       ` Kaveh R. Ghazi [this message]

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