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----- Original Message ----- From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com> > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > >> Is this something worth considering? > > > > > >Yes. But I think the requirement for separate install prefixes still > > >remains. I don't know much about debian, tho, so take that with a large > > >chunk of salt. Debian installs 2.13 out of the way of 2.52. I'm not sure where though (I'm not near that machine *right now*). > > I was thinking that we'd somehow have one autoconf.tar.gz which had both > > versions and a magic wrapper to handle them. Debian have 2.52, and if you want 2.13 *at all* you must have 2.52. That suggests to me that the magic wrapper is in the 2.52 tarball. > > I see the magic wrapper being nothing more than reading the configure.in > or configure.ac to get the AC_PREREQ value and creating the appropriate > symlinks to the correct versions before executing the tool. BTW, I just > looked at the configure.in in newlib and the AC_PREREQ value is already > 2.5. It may have started like that, but I believe it's a little smarter now .. It's under the GPL, why not grab the deb, run ar and have a look? Rob
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