an update to automake-1.11?
Ralf Corsepius
rc040203 at freenet.de
Wed Jul 1 05:30:37 UTC 2009
Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> This is seriously dubious for F9, since if it causes a problem there
>> is next to no time in which to fix it before F9 updates are turned
>> off. In general I struggle to believe that there is a compelling
>> need to rebase automake versions in our stable releases.
>
> Some software may need the new version to build.
Very unlikely.
However, this upgrade may break rebuilding some of the packages whose
packagers refuse to accept that running the autotools during builts is
harmful.
Anyway, the changes between automake-1.10 and automake-1.11 have been
comparatively harmless.
Ralf
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