On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 20:49 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com> writes: > > > Except nobody can actually find an example of the good reason anymore, > > which leads me to suspect it's actually bogus. Automake 1.6 through 1.9 > > are largely interchangeable. I personally keep 1.4 and 1.9 installed, > > and have no problems. > > That may very well be the case. Automake 1.9 does force an Autoconf > update over Automake 1.8, and Autoconf 2.59 is not *completely* compatible > with Autoconf 2.52 and thereabouts, but these are probably unusual enough > that not many people would be bitten by them. > You can force use of the later version with AC_PREREQ in this case ... the rebuild rules are intelligent enough to catch that and will just warn that they couldn't update configure. Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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