On Wed, Sep 16, 2026, at 5:43 AM, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > I maintain libtool in Debian and we were again bitten by automake hard- > coding aclocal version into the libtool toolchain.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. aclocal *itself* changes only rarely, although it is bundled with automake (not autoconf) and shares automake's version number. Could you give more detail on the specific sequence of events that leads to breakage, please? What files are the aclocal (== automake) version number getting written into, and why does it break libtool when a newer version of aclocal than what's in those files shows up? zw
