From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake Date: Mon, 05 May 2014 09:10:46 +0300 Message-ID: <83d2fszrfd.fsf@gnu.org> References: <868uqh4ust.fsf@gmail.com> <83tx95zffo.fsf@gnu.org> <3elhuhqv6k.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83lhuhz9zr.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1399413909 28105 80.91.229.3 (6 May 2014 22:05:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 22:05:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: andrewjmoreton@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 07 00:05:03 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WhnSq-0004TT-M8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 00:03:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55583 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WhC79-0002oS-PV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 May 2014 02:10:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34222) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WhC70-0002gJ-LN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2014 02:10:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WhC6u-00034U-Oe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2014 02:10:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:58398) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WhC6u-00032P-GR; Mon, 05 May 2014 02:10:44 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N5300C007ORIO00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Mon, 05 May 2014 09:10:43 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N5300B297TUZ4B0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Mon, 05 May 2014 09:10:42 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:171712 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Cc: andrewjmoreton@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 04 May 2014 19:01:47 -0400 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > At some point, 1.11 was the requirement, and newer versions would > > fail. > > I don't remember that ever happening. It would be an unusual state of > affairs. Yes, it was. It's the reason why fencepost.gnu.org still has 1.11. (I think the reason was some bug or issue with Autoconf, but my memory is vague. Perhaps Paul can shed more light on this.) > > I don't have a luxury of doing jobs that are not strictly necessary, > > and don't recommend that others use versions I don't use myself, or > > upgrade when there's no real need. Besides, which version to upgrade > > to? it's not like you can promise to which version we will switch > > next, can you? > > If I were you, I would have built "most recent stable version" at the > time you built autotools Fortunately, you are not me. (And I don't build a new version of anything unless there's a really good reason to do that. I don't have enough free time for that.)