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Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 19:54:27 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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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



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