Karl Berry <[email protected]> writes: > but what about a mode where it retrieves the latest version of > each file that is frequently updated, directly from its official VCS > source? > > It's useful, but seems far from Automake's core purpose. It seems better > to me as a separate script than as part of Automake. > > And that script has already been written, more or less. It's what > gnulib/config/srclist-update does, as to keep the common files up to > date in gnulib -- so everyone else can just get them from there (gnulib) > and not to have trawl around different repos. --thanks, karl.
+1, it is probably just easier to pull in auxiliary files (e.g. config.sub, config.guess, texinfo.tex, etc.) from Gnulib. Since those will be updated daily with changes, if any. Also, ideally you would use a mirror to not make the Savannah situation worse. The Savannah git mirror works [1]. Or also the GitHub mirror maintained by GNU Coreutils maintainers [2]. Collin [1] https://https.git.savannah.gnu.org/git/gnulib.git [2] https://github.com/coreutils/gnulib
