Re: minimum autoconf version

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 07/01/2012 04:40 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
>> I would therefore propose (b), that is, to bump the required Autoconf
>> version in the DEPENDENCIES file and gnulib-tool to 2.64.
>
> Given your description of the hassles involved in supporting
> older Autoconf versions, this seems like the better way to go.
> Thanks for looking into it.
>
> For what it's worth, Emacs (which is pretty conservative about
> this sort of thing) requires Autoconf 2.65 or later.

Thanks for doing that, Bruno.
That is a compelling argument to upgrade.
I advised to upgrade RHEL6's autoconf from 2.63 to 2.68 over a year ago:

    http://bugzilla.redhat.com/699622

I hope we're ready to follow through with that, now.