On Wednesday 2008-12-24 15:26, Eric Blake wrote: >According to Jan Engelhardt on 12/24/2008 7:24 AM: >> Hi, >> >> >> it always puzzled me - why do projects require automake "1.10a" when >> there is no such version on the GNU servers? Perhaps 1.10.1 was >> intended? > >Because they are essentially requiring you to use the unreleased latest >version self-built from automake.git; it will eventually be renamed 1.11 >when it is finally released. Yes, coreutils really does require >unreleased automake, because the latest release (1.10.2) is lacking >features used by coreutils.
It'd be cool if this explanation would make it into configure.ac. That said, I do not seem to have any problems using 1.10.1. thanks, Jan _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
