Re: an update to automake-1.11?

[Pádraig Brady <P draigBrady com>]

Ondřej Vašík wrote:
> Owen Taylor wrote:
>> I was rather surprised to see:
>>
>>  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2009-6661
>>  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-6076
>>  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-6370
>>
>> Where the automake was upgraded to 1.11 for F9, F10, and F11.
> 
> Upgrade on F-11 (and F-10) was requested because there are some projects
> (like gnulib/coreutils) which really need automake 1.11 for build in
> latest stable versions.

To clarify, coreutils needs automake only for development,
but it is nice not to have to build it as described here:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=README-prereq;hb=HEAD

I am surprised it was pused to F9 & F10

cheers,
Pádraig.