Eric Blake, Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:58:02 -0700:

>> > I'll update the automake info...
>> 
>> I just pushed this:
>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commit;h=ba6e08c
> 
> That's still misleading.  Automake 1.11 is a stable release, and distros
> are starting to pick it up as such.  At present, it is no longer
> necessary to check out automake.git to build coreutils.

I would stress "starting to" in your response:

bradford:~$ cat /etc/fedora-release 
Fedora release 11 (Leonidas)
bradford:~$ rpm -q automake
automake-1.10.2-3.noarch
bradford:~$ 

This is not-yet-released Fedora 11, which is distro known to distribute 
always obsolete versions of packages.

Matěj



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