Re: Bug: textutils-2.1 break, if you "touch" it

[Jim Meyering]

Nitin Gupta <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer to coreutils. I tried the same test on coreutils and it
> gave me the similar error. This issue prevents anyone to  put the coreutils
> code under CVS(source control) or changing timestaps of some file (unless you
> have the same version as specified in coreutils, neither old or new)

Why do you say that using newer tools causes problems?
Newer versions should always be fine.  So just get the
newest versions you can find of autoconf, automake, and bison.

I tried to explain that here.
>     If you need to check things into your own repository, or otherwise
>     change timestamps, then you should to get recent versions of tools
>     like autoconf, automake, and bison.