On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Michael Haubenwallner <michael.haubenwall...@ssi-schaefer.com> wrote: > On the way to prepare some (aix) libtool patch for toplevel libtool.m4 > I've discovered that different versions of automake were used to generate > files across various libs: > > most libs: automake-1.11.1 > libatomic r211747: automake-1.11.6 > libgfortran r204654: automake-1.11.3 > r215741: automake-1.11.6 > > Doesn't feel like there were specific reasons to use newer versions, > but OTOH I've failed to find some docs on which versions to use, so > I'd be fine with updating others to 1.11.6 instead as well.
I'm far from an autotools expert, but one justification for updating to 1.11.6 would be CVE-2012-3386, see https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-07/msg00023.html . Whatever version we end up choosing, the docs should say it so that there won't be such misconceptions in the future, IMHO. -- Janne Blomqvist
