dg wrote:

> Can anyone advise on the possible consequences of installing the
> latest stable releases of autoconfig and automake? Are there any
> dependencies within SL 6.2 that require the TUV versions of autoconfig
> and automake?

You don't need a newer version of automake. Leave the system autoconf
alone; install the latest stable autoconf in /usr/local from a release
tarfile; and make sure /usr/local/bin is at the front of your PATH when
building Emacs. If ultra-paranoid, install autoconf in a non-standard
location that is not normally in your PATH, but only when you build
Emacs.