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Re: Automake versions (was: Patch to make libgcj work withautoreconf again)
- From: Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc: tromey at redhat dot com, pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu, kcook at gcc dot gnu dot org, java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:25:13 -0500
- Subject: Re: Automake versions (was: Patch to make libgcj work withautoreconf again)
Thanks Tom for pointing this out. We have to all keep these autotools
versions synced: it bugs everybody to have extraneous differences in
trees due to version mis-match.
>Unfortunately, we have automake 1.9.3, 1.9.4 and 1.9.5 floating
>throughout the tree.
How did this happen?
>I propose standardizing the entire tree on 1.9.6,
>as it is the current release; moreover the 1.9 branch has only had a
>few minor patches since 1.9.6 was released 6 weeks ago so 1.9.6 might
>be stable for a while.
I am in support of this. The sooner the better.
>> Probably we should have a script in contrib/ that downloads and
>> builds all the currently-required tool versions.
>This would be very cool.
That seems like the only solution to end this continual issue. I'm strongly in favor of it.
-benjamin