Re: consider using latest autoconf for upcoming release?

[Jim Meyering]

On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 6:27 PM Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> wrote:
> Hi Pádraig,
>
> I recently made the grep-3.10 release using the very latest autoconf
> (built from master). I'm preparing to make an autoconf snapshot, and
> hopefully soon after, a "stable" 2.73 release. So far, no one has
> reported any issue with grep-3.10, but it has significantly less
> autoconf coverage than coreutils.
>
> What do you think about using either autoconf's master or the imminent
> snapshot when preparing coreutils-9.3?

FTR, I've verified that when bootstrapped with the latest of both
automake and autoconf, coreutils v9.2-6-g6272817de passes "make
distcheck" on fedora 37 x86_64.