Re: problem with bootstrapping coreutils with automake 1.10.1

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> I couldn't do a bootstrap build of coreutils with the latest publicly
> released tools due to the "1.10a" in configure.ac.  Is that "1.10a"
> obsolete now?  Is it OK to use automake 1.10.1 now?  Anyway, this
> patch worked around my bootstrap problem:

1.10a is deemed (at least by automake and m4) to indicate a newer
version than 1.10.1.  counter-intuitive?  This matters because
sort --version now disagrees with that ordering:

    $ printf 'automake-1.10%s\n' .1 a|sort -V
    automake-1.10a
    automake-1.10.1

This stems from the new gnulib filevercmp module.

There's actually a minor dependency in coreutils on the
newer automake.

> 2008-10-15  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
>
>       * configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Bump Automake version from
>       1.10a to 1.10.1.