Braden McDaniel wrote:
Breaking compatibility with previous versions of automake, autoconf,
or
libtool has no impact on released tarballs made using those tools; they
continue to work as intended because they do not depend on the presence
of these tools.
...but they depend on a slew of *other* things, like a POSIX shell and
many POSIX tools. And IIRC I've run into problems when those weren't the
/GNU/ versions thereof.
There's a lot to be said for /one/ tool that - while, granted, it needs
to be installed - not only allows you to build, but also do full
development without having to hunt down some precise version thereof,
have several versions installed at once, etc.
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