an update to automake-1.11?

[Sam Varshavchik]

Richard W.M. Jones writes:

> On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 02:24:43PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>> For this kind of scope, rebuilding the entire configure 
>> script is overkill, and I wouldn't do it unless I audit it and verify 
>> whether or not upstream is relying on some specific behavior in the 
>> specific version of autoconf that was used to build the original 
>> configure script.
> 
> So to make this patch, I've got to track down the exact version
> of all the autotools that upstream happens to be using.  Great.

If you want to patch configure.ac, and then rerun autoconf to generate a 
brand new configure script, then, yes, that's what due diligence indicates.

But that's what /you/ want to do, not me. Me, I'll just apply a patch to the 
configure script, directly.


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