Jim Meyering wrote:
> I try to accommodate progressiveness, when the benefit appears to
> outweigh the risk.
ACK. The risk of an automake-1.10->automake-1.11 upgrade on Fedora is
close to zero and outweigh the effects of bug fixes having gone into
automake-1.11.
So far, I know of no incompatibility
that would require any manual work.
I am not aware of any, either.
The latest major breakage with autoconf/automake, I encountered was
introduction of AC_ENABLE/DISABLE_OPTION_CHECKING, which causes
irritating warnings when not being treated manually.
However this was introduced by autoconf, not automake, and is more a
nuissance but a regression.
But even if there are a few corner
cases, anyone who cannot find the time for whatever small changes are
needed to update to automake-1.11 can install an older version and
use that.
The fact "make V=..." uses an unprefixed/non-namespace safe environment
variable is a candidate to cause problems. Admitted, the likelihood of
older packages tripping over this is close to null.
Ralf
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