Re: an update to automake-1.11?

[Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 freenet de>]

Jim Meyering wrote:

> I try to accommodate progressiveness, when the benefit appears to
> outweigh the risk.
ACK. The risk of an automake-1.10->automake-1.11 upgrade on Fedora is 
close to zero and outweigh the effects of bug fixes having gone into 
automake-1.11.

> So far, I know of no incompatibility
> that would require any manual work.
I am not aware of any, either.

The latest major breakage with autoconf/automake, I encountered was 
introduction of AC_ENABLE/DISABLE_OPTION_CHECKING, which causes 
irritating warnings when not being treated manually.

However this was introduced by autoconf, not automake, and is more a 
nuissance but a regression.

> But even if there are a few corner
> cases, anyone who cannot find the time for whatever small changes are
> needed to update to automake-1.11 can install an older version and
> use that.
The fact "make V=..." uses an unprefixed/non-namespace safe environment 
variable is a candidate to cause problems. Admitted, the likelihood of 
older packages tripping over this is close to null.

Ralf