Re: Need of newer autoconf and libtool

[Marius Vollmer]

Dirk Herrmann <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, NIIBE Yutaka wrote:
> 
> > Can I assume newer libtool and autoconf?  If not, I may postpone
> > "Thread Plug-in Support" final patch, but proceed to POSIX Thread
> > Support.  Well, I could just send it for your reference, not
> > intending the inclusion.
> > 
> > Opinion?
> 
> It seems that 1.3.5 is the latest stable version, while 1.3d is still
> alpha (according to the gnu libtool page).  Hmmm...  I don't know what we
> should do in this case.

I don't think its a problem in general to use pre-releases of the
build utilities if they give us an advantage.  Since we'll need the
new features, we can just as well help shake out the bugs.

It's different with releasing Guile 1.6, tho.  We should probably ask
the libtool crowd whether it is a good idea to ship a `stable' release
with an alpha libtool.