Akim Demaille wrote: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2019-01/msg00000.html > > Hey, I know personally Antoine. I didn't know if was in this area > too.
Small world! :) > > (1½ years ago, not even a reply) > > Well, the problem is mostly that there are no active maintainers on > the Autotools. So it is not that the comment is disregarded, it's > just that there's no-one on the other end. Oops! For such a central tools to make GNU programs, this would spell bigger problems in the medium and long term ... > And fortunately, this is changing: Zack Weinberg is currently wrapping > the next release of Autoconf, and maybe he plans them to move onto > Automake. I don't know about that. Maybe he can at least fix the permission problem. This should be a smaller issue (at least compared to parallel configure). But will he read those old mails at all? Sure, I could send another bug report, but I wouldn't have to add anything besides a "me too" to Antoine's mail. Regards, Frank
