Re: [PATCH] Corrected macro invocations

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Oct 12, 2000, Morten Eriksen <address@hidden> wrote:

>> Please make sure your patch works not only with the CVS versions of
>> GNU automake and autoconf, but also with the latest releases.

> Why is this necessary with the _head_ CVS branch?

Because when it is released, it should still be usable without
requiring people to upgrade to newer releases of autoconf and
automake.

> (I mean, a Libtool version >=1.4 release seems very unlikely to happen
> before new stable releases has been made from the head CVS branches of
> Autoconf and Automake?)

Don't count on that.  I think 1.4 is pretty close.  But don't quote me
on that ;-)

Anyway, even if libtool 1.4 happens to go out after automake 1.5 or
autoconf 2.50, we (I? :-) don't want to force people to upgrade to
them.  Tools should be as independent as possible, so that one can
upgrade one at a time, and know which tool to blame when it breaks.

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