* Paul Eggert (egg...@cs.ucla.edu) [20131018 01:03]: > it's quite common to assume that developers have more > up-to-date tools than whatever old OS their software > eventually has to run on.
And in turn the rule is that if the version of autotools that's required isn't available, you don't touch files that need autoconf to be regenerated. For instance don't patch configure.ac but configure. Philipp