From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22278 invoked by alias); 23 Aug 2009 14:22:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 22250 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Aug 2009 14:22:35 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,J_CHICKENPOX_92 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtpauth02.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (HELO smtpauth02.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net) (64.202.165.182) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:22:28 +0000 Received: (qmail 6010 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2009 14:22:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (70.111.33.210) by smtpauth02.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.165.182) with ESMTP; 23 Aug 2009 14:22:25 -0000 Message-ID: From: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" To: "Ralf Wildenhues" Cc: , , References: <20090822110723.GB18527@gmx.de> <20090822191014.GC3689@gmx.de> <20090823140401.GA13304@gmx.de> Subject: Re: mini-freeze of autotools-governed files in GCC and src Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:48:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-08/txt/msg00233.txt.bz2 From: "Ralf Wildenhues" >> 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 It's now out of date and a source of possible confusion.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.