[patch 1/28] top-level: Use automake-1.11.6

[Michael Haubenwallner]

On 05/12/2015 10:45 AM, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> On 05/11/2015 07:55 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
>> On Sat, 9 May 2015, Bernd Edlinger wrote:
>>
>>> But maybe you would like it better if we update, for instance, to:
>>> automake-1.14  _and_  autoconf-2.69 ?
>>
>> Updating to current automake and autoconf release versions (but still 
>> using git versions of the toplevel scripts, not those from particular 
>> releases) is a good thing - remembering that toplevel is shared with the 
>> binutils-gdb and newlib-cygwin repositories (unfortunately some files 
>> sometimes get out of sync, especially in newlib-cygwin which people 
>> commonly don't update when changing the other repositories), so if 
>> subdirectories in those repositories aren't updated at least ensure that a 
>> mixture of versions (toplevel using a newer version than some 
>> subdirectories) works.
> 
> I'm all fine to omit this top-level downgrades and regenerate without the
> "--add-missing --copy --force-missing" automake flags. Feels more obvious
> anyway, otherways "--enable-maintainer-mode" should use them already.

It turns out that besides the top-level ones there are more copied-from-automake
files in various library dirs - where some of them seem quite outdated actually:

  libffi/mdate-sh
  libjava/classpath/INSTALL
  libjava/libltdl/config.guess
  libjava/libltdl/config.sub
  libjava/libltdl/install-sh
  libjava/libltdl/missing

As they don't seem to make troubles, I prefer to leave them untouched as well.

/haubi/