On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 02:14:29PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

> Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 12:30:30PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> >
> >> Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> 
> >> > I don't know, you're the autoconf expert here ;-)
> >> > IMO, the most easy option is requiring automake 1.7 or later.
> >> 
> >> Which would mean in turn autoconf 2.54. I am not sure if it can be a
> >> problem for someone. What is debian-stable sing these days?
> >
> > I think they ship the whole spectrum and you select what to use
> > through the alternatives method. Meaning that you could also pair
> > incompatible versions of automake and autoconf...
> > The default should be the last available versions, though.
> 
> A few years ago, people using debian-stable were stuck with very old
> development tools. 

This doesn't seem to be the case anymore:

http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=automake&searchon=names&subword=1&version=stable&release=all

http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=autoconf&searchon=names&subword=1&version=stable&release=all

-- 
Enrico

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