[Glibc-bsd-hackers] Re: [PATCH] GNU/KNetBSD support

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:22:42PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> take advantage of aclocal-1.8's m4_include feature -- this will
> reduce the distribution tarball size by 20-40% by my estimation.

Great!

> Unless the Automake team release 1.8 very soon, I'd hope to have it done
> well inside a month behind the Automake release, with a beta a week or two
> before that.

Automake 1.8 itself cannot be released before Autoconf 2.58.
Please take the queue :)  Aside from this dependency, I hope
we can have the first 1.8 beta (1.7b) within a month.