Re: an update to automake-1.11?

[Kevin Kofler <kevin kofler chello at>]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> a) it will cause some moderate stir-up to those packages whose upstreams
> are still abusing the autotools.

s/ab// ;-)

Why can't we just move to a better build system with higher focus on
backwards compatibility? (And FYI, I'm "against autotools" more than
I'm "for CMake". It's just that in the past I could just say "don't use
autotools", now I have an actual alternative to suggest.)

        Kevin Kofler