Re: autoreconf --force seemingly does not forcibly update everything

[Bruno Haible]

Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> Please forgive my ignorance... If you bump the authentic version of
> the m4 file to version 31, will the issue mostly clear itself?

If we bump gnulib's build-to-host.m4 to 'serial 31', this will override
the one from xz-5.6.x in *some* situations. In other situations, it will
not help. [1]

Therefore it is more reliable to curate the xz releases at their
download locations and in the distros.

Bruno

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Serials.html