Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3C45DB7E.8030105@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:58:54 -0500 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charles Wilson CC: Eric Blake , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: devel tool wrappers and --version, --help References: <3C45D6B3.B4808783@email.byu.edu> <3C45DADF.4070407@ece.gatech.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Charles Wilson wrote: > I have already been given a patch to do this, but I am a little > concerned about implementation. It makes sense to me, to defer to the > -devel version, but I am concerned about ripple effects... > > IMO, if you are libtoolizing (autoconf'ing, automake'ing) a new > directory that has no existing configure.in, then the suggested > solutions should be sufficient: > create a temporary configure.in that has only "AC_REQUIRE(2.52)" > or > set path = /usr/autotool/devel/bin > > Setting up the wrapper scripts to report one version or the other -- > with no reason to prefer one over the other, such as a pre-existing > configure.in file -- is just lying. Just to make it clear -- I am not opposed to applying the patch to effect this behavior, but I am worried about unintended consequences. Discussion? --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/