module releases for X11R7.3

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 07:24:17AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 8/23/07, Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 19:34 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > >
> > > What updates are likely for
> > >
> > >       http://www.x.org/archive/current/src/extras/
> >
> > Definitely Mesa.  Probably freetype and xterm should get updated; do you
> > have a preferred version of xterm we should list?
> >
> > I don't have strong feelings about updating the other build utilities.
> > automake/autoconf/libtool/m4 have all seen updates since then, but I
> > doubt they're necessary.
> 
> Except that there have been many commits recently specifically geared
> to working with automake-1.10 (change prog_CFLAGS to AM_CFLAGS). It
> would be nice to put the same versions here that the developers are
> actually using since everyone knows how fragile the autotools can be.

And let me repeat: please build all release tarballs with the latest
versions of at least the util-macro package. The other autotools would
be preferable as well as it means patching things, regen and patching
the original files creates sane diffs without having to hunt down the
original version used by the packager.

Joerg