X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <495FB6CF.1060701@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:04:47 -0500 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081209 Thunderbird/2.0.0.19 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: [ITP] gcc-tools-autoconf, gcc-tools-automake Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Special versions of "pristine" (that is, no cygwin-special patches) of autoconf-2.59 and automake-1.9.6 as required by gcc, installed into /opt/gcc-tools/{bin|lib|share}. This should make it easier for Dave, and those who want to help him, to develop gcc and binutils -- avoiding things like this: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-12/msg00201.html I already maintain "normal" autoconf and automake packages, but I'm soliciting comments on these new packages because they are a little odd. And no official packages yet uses the /opt tree, so... http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-3.12.html -- Chuck http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/gcc-tools-autoconf-2.59-2-src.tar.bz2 http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/gcc-tools-autoconf-2.59-2.tar.bz2 http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/gcc-tools-autoconf.hint sdesc: "(gcc-special) automatic configure script builder" ldesc: "This is a custom version of autoconf, installed into /opt/gcc-tools/ for the use of gcc developers. Gcc requires an unpatched, pristine version of autoconf when preparing patches for official submission." category: Devel requires: m4 perl coreutils texinfo http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/gcc-tools-automake-1.9.6-2-src.tar.bz2 http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/gcc-tools-automake-1.9.6-2.tar.bz2 http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/gcc-tools-automake.hint sdesc: "(gcc-special) a tool for generating GNU-compliant Makefiles" ldesc: "This is a custom version of automake, installed into /opt/gcc-tools/ for the use of gcc developers. Gcc requires an unpatched, pristine version of automake when preparing patches for official submission." category: Devel requires: gcc-tools-autoconf perl coreutils m4 texinfo -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/