Which autoconf for libstdc++

[Phil Edwards]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 04:49:06PM -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "benjamin" == Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> benjamin> Current versions of these tools are
> benjamin> autoconf-2.59
> benjamin> automake-1.8
> 
> benjamin> If the java and c++ folks agree to this then I guess the
> benjamin> next step would be to post a RFC on the gcc list, and then
> benjamin> set AC_PREREQ?
> 
> This all sounds good to me.  Let's do it.

Let's not.  At least not yet.

I've been trying to convert v3 to use those versions, and some of the new
behavior is causing problems.  Depending on how easy/hard/possible it is
to work around them, we might want to standardize on the previous versions.

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