On 05/12/2015 10:45 AM, Michael Haubenwallner wrote: > On 05/11/2015 07:55 PM, Joseph Myers wrote: >> On Sat, 9 May 2015, Bernd Edlinger wrote: >> >>> But maybe you would like it better if we update, for instance, to: >>> automake-1.14 _and_ autoconf-2.69 ? >> >> Updating to current automake and autoconf release versions (but still >> using git versions of the toplevel scripts, not those from particular >> releases) is a good thing - remembering that toplevel is shared with the >> binutils-gdb and newlib-cygwin repositories (unfortunately some files >> sometimes get out of sync, especially in newlib-cygwin which people >> commonly don't update when changing the other repositories), so if >> subdirectories in those repositories aren't updated at least ensure that a >> mixture of versions (toplevel using a newer version than some >> subdirectories) works. > > I'm all fine to omit this top-level downgrades and regenerate without the > "--add-missing --copy --force-missing" automake flags. Feels more obvious > anyway, otherways "--enable-maintainer-mode" should use them already.
It turns out that besides the top-level ones there are more copied-from-automake files in various library dirs - where some of them seem quite outdated actually: libffi/mdate-sh libjava/classpath/INSTALL libjava/libltdl/config.guess libjava/libltdl/config.sub libjava/libltdl/install-sh libjava/libltdl/missing As they don't seem to make troubles, I prefer to leave them untouched as well. /haubi/
