Re: gnulib-tool change for Autoconf 2.60 and onceonly

[Eric Blake]

Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org> writes:

> 
> Paul Eggert wrote on 2006-07-09:
> > While bootstrapping Bison I noticed that gnulib-tool assumes Autoconf
> > versions 2.57 through 2.59.  But Bison assumes 2.60.  On the theory
> > that gnulib-tool should assume the latest stable version, and you
> > can copy onceonly by hand if you want an earlier one
> 
> This theory can damage acceptance of gnulib. Instead, I'm asking to leave
> people some choice, in order to leave them the freedom to decide _when_ they
> want to upgrade to a newer autoconf.

Would it be worth grepping configure.ac, and if you detect AC_PREREQ([2.60]), 
having that imply --assume-autoconf=2.60?

-- 
Eric Blake