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Date: | Thu, 20 Sep 2001 14:34:10 -0400 |
From: | Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: Autotools; new versions |
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On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 02:22:53PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: >Since there are incompatibilities between > autoconf-2.13 and autoconf-2.5x > automake-1.4 and automake-1.5 > >and most (cygwin-external) projects have been slow and/or resistant to >migrate to the newer versions, > >and cgf doesn't want to "push the envelope" on autotools from cygwin >(let other projects migrate FIRST, then we follow) > >and libtool/autoconf/automake must all share the same prefix (usr or >usr/local or...) Robert suggested that debian has a wrapper that tries to infer which version of autoconf to run. Is this something worth considering? cgf
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