Re: Automake 1.9 breakage

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 12:40:34AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> A package should *always* call a specific version of automake.  If a
> package directly invokes "automake", that's a bug.  It should instead
> call automake-1.8, automake-1.4, whatever is known to work.

Most don't bother. Nor can you really blame the package authors since
most of them wrote their configuration stuff without realising a bunch
of nutters would start issuing a zillion differently incompatible autoconf
tool sets with more new syntax bugs than perl

> The automake binaries are versioned for a reason - so installing a new
> version doesn't break builds.  Patches to move to a new version should
> be upstream, since they are more likely to be familiar with their build
> system and the effects of new automake versions on their packages.

So you want to end up in the state where CD #2 is "autoconfs"  8) ?