Breaking backward compatibility is so bad -- I've been bitten many times by autoconf-generated scripts that many GNU packages use and insist on remaking locally (why?) and that could not work because my local autoconf was newer than the version used by the package author.
autoconf/automake gets rerun automatically if the timestamps for configure/Makefile.in is newer than for configure.ac/Makefile.am and other such files. It often occurs if you are getting something from CVS. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
