* Neal Gompa:
As I said previously[1], I think doing autoconf upgrades would be
less
painful if we always did that.
[1]:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.o...
I think that's not actually true: If we do not build from source, it
doesn't matter if the compiler produces a working executable program
from the old sources.
Apart from the build-from-source principle, there are other advantages.
It may be easier to adopt new architectures and toolchain versions.
Thanks,
Florian