Doc for autoconf and automake versions

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> The big change is converting to 1.7 or later, because that requires Autoconf 
> 2.5x; adopting 1.8.x or (when it comes out) 1.9.x is not a big chore compared 
> to updating the configure scripts.

Does that mean the conversion of boehm-gc to automake 1.8.5 will be easy
(given that it already uses autoconf 2.59), leaving just libjava and
toplevel using old versions?

> > +The @file{fastjar}, @file{libbanshee}, @file{libffi},
> > +@file{libjava/libltdl} and @file{zlib} directories require automake
> > +1.7.9.
> 
> I used 1.8.x for libltdl and libffi in other projects.  I can try updating all 
> of these (and libmudflap) next Monday.

I'd be glad to see the various 1.7.x/1.8.x directories all updated to use
autoconf 2.59 / automake 1.8.5 to get the required versions down to two
(or indeed any updates to 1.8.5 of directories using older versions), if
you wish to do this.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm@polyomino.org.uk