I think that autoconf 2.59 is available in a directory adjacent to the one that contains the libtool 1.5 release. :-) Bob On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Pavel Roskin wrote: > Hello! > > I've seen an announcement in autotools-announce@xxxxxxx that Automake > 1.7.9 has been released with Autoconf 2.59. I thought it was a typo > because Autoconf 2.59 has never been announced in the same list. > > Indeed, I checked NEW in CVS Autoconf, it mentions the 2.59 release on the > same day as Autoconf 2.58 - November 4, 2003. > > However, ftp.gnu.org has only version 2.58. Debian unstable also uses > version 2.58. I decided to check the mailing list. (I'm very sorry, but > I had to disable mailing list traffic for some mailing lists I was > subscribed to, including autoconf lists, because I could not participate > in too many projects in the same time.) > > I don't normally trust gnu.org pages full of outdated "invariant > sections", but the project page on savannah.gnu.org > <https://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group=autoconf> points to the same list > archives: > > http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/ > > What I see is that half of traffic is spam and that neither Autoconf 2.58 > nor Autoconf 2.59 have been announced there. However, the Autoconf 2.58 > announcement is in the autoconf-maintainers archives. > > What happened to the project and to the mailing lists? > > I'm ready to become a moderator of the autoconf list. It appears that the > traffic is not very heavy. Besides, I have a Spamcop subscription, so I > can reroute spam to my account and report it. > > -- > Regards, > Pavel Roskin > > ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen