> > I've been thinking about updating the autotools prerequisites in the GNU > make build system to newer versions; that would include autoconf, > automake, and gettext. > > I'm most interested in gettext as the version we're using now (0.18.4) > has some old/deprecated autoconf m4 macros that would be nice to avoid. > > If there are version restrictions on any of the platforms (that is, it's > tricky to get newer versions of some of these tools) where people are > performing from-Git builds as opposed to building distribution source > packages (where the versions of these tools shouldn't be an issue), > please let me know.
In Solaris it can sometimes be painful to get newer versions of auto-tools. At a minimum, please double-check OpenCSW to make sure the version you switch to is at least equal to if not lower than the latest version they have building for sparc solaris. -brian
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