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Re: Status of libtool 2.2.X? Jens Petersen Mon Dec 01 20:00:34 2008 

----- "Kevin Kofler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * start discouraging shipping pregenerated files, instead make sure that 
> autoreconf actually works (which mainly amounts to the above point about 
> backwards compatibility).
> But unfortunately, this won't solve the problem of the reliance on the shell, 
> and as configure.ac scripts can contain arbitrary shell snippets, this can't 
> really be fixed without a major redesign, the result of which would 
> effectively 
> no longer be autotools.

I would add:

* do not start new projects using autotools as far as possible

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