FESCo Proposal for blocking older version of autoconf & automake

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 21:45 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 11:57 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 17:48 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >>
> >>> This step is way over due. It also will teach maintainers not run the
> >>> autotools while building.
> >> Thats your personal preference. 
> > 
> > Your liberty to think this.
> 
> Otherwise, it would be useful to have packaging guidelines officially on 
> to the recommended method to deal with this.
The key to avoid autotool compatibility issues is simple: Do not
generate autotool generated files while building.
Generate them off-line.

Ralf