FESCo Proposal for blocking older version of autoconf & automake

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

>>>>> "TK" == Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> writes:

TK> Despite incompatibilities, some packages will generate correct
TK> Makefiles whether you use automake-1.4 or automake-1.9.

I guess the real question, then, is how to tell that the shiny new
automake version has produced an incorrect makefile.  Are the failures
obvious, or do you build it and hope that it doesn't fail silently
later?

 - J<