MinGW autotools versions (was: state of MSVC patches for HEAD)

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 11:17:26AM CEST:
> 
> e) Of the new testsuite, test 12 and 13 seem to pass but silently fail
> for me on my slightly out-of-date MinGW/msys installation (next
> attachment), it seems because Automake-1.7 is used.  I see MinGW has
> 1.8.2 for download now;

Never mind this comment, please.  I have been blind..

> which one did you test with, and do you see this
> failure?  This is important, we have to adjust minimum allowed Automake
> versions for client packages here 

This is still important..