Re: Best practices for autotools

[Warren Young]

On 5/3/2010 10:11 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> CAVEAT EMPTOR: While it is certainly worth skimming through the
> autobook to get a feel for how the various programs interact and can
> be used together, the book will be 10 years old this year, and much
> has changed in that time that makes plenty of the details described
> in the book inaccurate, obsolete or just plain wrong.

I don't know that I ever would have started using autotools without the 
autobook.  Coming to it for the first time can be hugely confusing, and 
it smoothed out a lot of bumps for me.  Any chance of a new version of 
the book for the next generation of newbies?