Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Charles Wilson To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: autoconf-devel-2.53-1 Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <20020422145302.C46121B961@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 10:53:02 -0400 (EDT) Version 2.53-1 of the autoconf-devel package, which has been available as a test release for a month now with no complaints, has now been marked 'current'. It contains GNU autoconf-2.53, installed into /usr/autotool/devel. GNU Autoconf-2.53 has some major internal changes, but remains backward compatible with the GNU Autoconf-2.5x series. The largest change is that the individual scripts now use the 'autom4te' engine to do their dirty work (and it adds a new script: 'autom4te' which allows direct access to that engine). This change should lead to great speed improvements in autoconf. Note that the autoconf-wrapper (the 'autoconf' package for cygwin) has already been updated to accomodate the new 2.53 version of GNU autoconf. However, that wrapper is ALSO backward compatible with GNU autoconf-2.52. So, updating the cygwin 'autoconf' package is OKAY even if you stick with the older cygwin 'autoconf-devel' package, but you MUST update your cygwin 'autoconf' package if you want to use THIS autoconf-devel 2.53 package. -- Chuck Wilson To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'autoconf-devel' from the 'Devel' category. Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update. In the US, ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ is a reliable high bandwidth connection. In Japan, ftp://ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/gnu/gnu-win32/ is already updated. In DK, http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/cygwin/ is usually up-to-date. If one of the above doesn't have the latest version of this package you can either wait for the site to be updated or find another mirror. Please send questions or comments to the Cygwin mailing list at: cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com . If you want to subscribe go to: http://cygwin.com/lists.html I would appreciate if you would use this mailing list rather than emailing me directly. This includes ideas and comments about the setup utility or Cygwin in general. If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-YOU=YOURDOMAIN DOT COM AT cygwin DOT com -- 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/