Re: Need of newer autoconf and libtool

[Rob Browning]

Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

Looks like we don't need to worry about it.  If they stick even
marginally close to their schedule, they'll get 1.4 out well before
we're ready to release 1.6.0.

So I think it's safe for us to plan on using it.

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Rob Browning <address@hidden> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930