Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake

[Paul Eggert]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Yes, it was.  It's the reason why fencepost.gnu.org still has 1.11.
> (I think the reason was some bug or issue with Autoconf, but my memory
> is vague.  Perhaps Paul can shed more light on this.)

I expect that Fencepost is still running Automake 1.11 only because it's 
still running Trisquel 4, a distribution released in 2011 back when 
Automake 1.11 was current.  Trisquel 4 was a long-term release, was 
fully supported until last year, and is scheduled to get security 
updates through next year.  At that point I suppose even fencepost will 
have to upgrade -- one can keep dinosaurs running only for so long 
before being overwhelmed by the costs of feeding them.

I don't recall any Automake-version-related problems when building Emacs 
for a couple of years anyway, and I've been testing only with the latest 
version of Automake all along.  Perhaps there were problems before that, 
lost in the mists of time, but if so I've forgotten them.