[Bug-gnulib] Re: serial numbers in .m4 files: are they still useful?

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

Hi Jim,

>>> "Jim" == Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

 Jim> Hi guys!
 Jim> In gnulib and coreutils, we're considering getting rid of the
 Jim> serial number line in each .m4 file.  I see that acinstall uses them,
 Jim> but don't see if/where acinstall is itself used.

I discovered acinstall a few months ago while grepping
Automake's sources so I'm afraid a won't be of much help...

Before I found acinstall, the only program using these serial
numbers I knew was libtoolize.  But it's only using this for
it's own libtool.m4 file, so that's not your problem.
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz