an update to automake-1.11?

[Ralf Corsepius]

Ondřej Vašík wrote:
> Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 09:02 +0200, Ondřej Vašík wrote:
>>> Owen Taylor wrote:
>>>> I was rather surprised to see:
>>>>
>>>>  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2009-6661
>>>>  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-6076
>>>>  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-6370
>>>>
>>>> Where the automake was upgraded to 1.11 for F9, F10, and F11.
>>> Upgrade on F-11 (and F-10) was requested because there are some projects
>>> (like gnulib/coreutils) which really need automake 1.11 for build in
>>> latest stable versions.
>> Is there a bug report with details of this gnulib/coreutils request?
> 
> Not really, it was just direct irl/irc/mail communication with
> automake/autoconf fedora maintainers&comaintainers. First request was
> only about 1.10b in rawhide (after f-12 split) - as I needed at least
> 1.10b to build coreutils-7.4 there (otherwise only with an ugly hack).

And? This should not be a problem to you.

Simply install the original GNU versions of these autotools in parallel 
(using a different --prefix) to the vendor supplied versions and use 
them for your packages (here core-utils).

Ralf