Re: new coreutils snapshot; are they useful?

[Jim Meyering]

Olivier Delhomme <address@hidden> wrote:
> Le Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:48:08 +0100, Jim Meyering disait :
>
>> I'll stop providing them.  Actually, that wouldn't be too surprising,
>> since the process of checking out the code and running "./bootstrap &&
>> ./configure && make && make dist" probably works fine for most people
>> who try, these days.
>
> On my debian system, the automake package is only at version 1.9.6 and
> not 1.10 as requested. Anyway I modified the incriminated line in the
> configure.ac file and the whole procedure just ran ok ! Is there any
> special reason to require automake 1.10 version ?

One problem is that pre-1.10 can end up using a race-prone MKDIR_P.
I'm sure there are other specific reasons, but can't name
others off the top of my head.

There may be subtle portability problems.