Automake versions (was: Patch to make libgcj work with autoreconf again)

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "KC" == Kelley Cook <kcook@gcc.gnu.org> writes:

KC> Unfortunately, we have automake 1.9.3, 1.9.4 and 1.9.5 floating
KC> throughout the tree.  I propose standardizing the entire tree on 1.9.6,
KC> as it is the current release; moreover the 1.9 branch has only had a
KC> few minor patches since 1.9.6 was released 6 weeks ago so 1.9.6 might
KC> be stable for a while.

This sounds great to me.

>> Probably we should have a script in contrib/ that downloads and
>> builds all the currently-required tool versions.

KC> This would be very cool.

I submitted one.

Tom