> > What's still remaining for autoconf 2.60 to reach beta stage? > > I don't know of any showstopper bugs. Actually I know of something that looks like a bug to me. It's been there forever and is something that I don't have an explanation for. When cross-compiling, autoconf accepts a bare name for a tool (e.g. "ld" for a cross-linker); gcc has special macros to exclude cross tools without a prefix. Is there a reason to do so? Paolo