> Yes, I know where they are, what I was getting at was whether there was > some way of being able to automatically replace old ones included in an > archive... Well, cron and wget are your friends :)
> Can autoconf check a specific location for these files and use the newer > version, by something like the '-I' option ? autoconf uses the files found in the location specified with AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR. automake uses the version found in the preconfigured libdir, or in the location specified with --libdir=DIR.