X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 10:39:07 +0200 From: Spiro Trikaliotis To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <20090516083906.GC22639@trikaliotis.net> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1242445850.26068.ezmlm@cygwin.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 87.163.218.91 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: an-cygwin@spiro.trikaliotis.net Subject: Re: managing autoconf versions? X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:23:22 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mail.trikaliotis.net) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Hello Jay, * On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 06:00:30AM +0000 Jay wrote: > How do people manage autoconf/automake versions? [...] > Rather I'm wondering about submitting patches to other projects, Just make sure you do not include generated files in your patch, and you should be fine. Having the generated files in your patch would produce problems on the other side, regardless if you use the same version of auto* tools or not. HTH, Spiro. -- Spiro R. Trikaliotis http://opencbm.sf.net/ http://www.trikaliotis.net/ http://www.viceteam.org/ -- 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/