Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3B9C0133.1090906@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 19:54:27 -0400 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010713 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Automake 1.5 References: <20010909194259.B11565@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Christopher Faylor wrote: > FWIW, Chuck Wilson has also identified some incompatibilities between > the newest version of autoconf and libiberty's configure.in. > > I wonder if we should drop back to an older version for a while in the > cygwin distro. AAAGGGHHH!!!! Not you, too, Chris! The new autoconf and automake are necessary if we ever want to get libtool to build dll's transparently. That's the tradeoff. Permanent stasis with 2.13/1.4, or forward progression and some new features (and bugfixes. Did I mention bugfixes?) in the 2.52/1.5 versions. But it means folks have to make the adjustment in a lot of different packages -- including libiberty, gcc, etc. Again, *what* is the resistance? *Why* don't folks want to upgrade -- even when handed a patch? --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/