On 01/02/2015 11:12 AM, Glenn Morris wrote:
> The autoconf manual says "Don't rely on ln having a -f option."

Although that was good advice in the early 1990s when that part of the 
Autoconf manual was written, the advice has been obsolete for years.  I 
installed the attached patch into Autoconf to fix this (after bumping 
Autoconf's copyright year).  I'm CC:ing this to autoconf-patches.