Am Donnerstag, 3. Januar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> No: Autoconf/Automake/Libtool have the advantage of /not/ being
> prerequisites for building packages that use them.

You mean that the output of the autotools is independent of their version 
(assuming that a recent enough version is used so that all macros are 
understood)? Otherwise I do not see this independence.

Andreas