On Wed, Sep 10, 2025, at 5:11 PM, Karl Berry wrote: > Hi Vincent. As far as I know, --add-missing has never checked for > whether its versions are older. I don't know of a reasonable way to > change this -- it's a common problem, and also inevitable, given > asynchronous releases of everything involved. Instead, it doesn't > install over existing files. ... > I don't think it's feasible for automake to go poking around the > system trying to find other versions of the "missing" files to compare > against. There'd be no way to know what's really wanted, seems to me. ... > I'm open to other ideas. --best, karl.
This couldn't be the default, because it'd involve talking to the network, but what about a mode where it retrieves the latest version of each file that is frequently updated, directly from its official VCS source? As well as texinfo.tex, I know this would be useful for config.sub and config.guess at least. zw
