Mail Archives: cygwin/2009/06/11/14:33:39
Hello Jay,
* On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 07:02:00AM +0000 Jay wrote:
> [maybe should cc cygwin]
Doing so. ;) For complete reference, I am citing your complete mail. As
you do not seem to be subscribed, I am keeping you as a direct
recipient, too.
> Just noticed your guys's responses, searching
> the web. Thanks.
>
> Spiro, I don't your answer of not including
> generating files with the patch suffices.
> - I think people do include them.
I am doing open source projects myself. Whenever I get a patch where
these generated files (auto*, bison, flex, ...) are included, I ask the
sender to send a new copy without these files. There are really a pain
in the ass! They are not worth the time it takes me to remove the
patches.
> - It is important to match versions for testing purposes.
> If I test with a non matching autoconf/make, what they generate
> won't likely match, and that invalidates testing.
In my experience, these differences are seldom important. If they are, I
will take such a patch, of course.
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> Dave, thanks, it is exactly binutils/gcc I'm interested in.
> Thank you for proving I'm not crazy -- there really is a problem.
> Could be due to your work that cygwin is the best/easiest platform
> here (but so slow to fork. :( ).
> I was/am not aware of what the version macros achieve.
> You know, I mean...ignoring binutils/gcc, though they are relevant,
> would I install versions 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, etc. (made up versions)
> all to different prefix, put all the prefixes/bin in $PATH and
> the version macros search $PATH?
> Or do all the tools append versions to all their directories/files?
>
>
> You know, ideally..ideally what I would do is
> download "every" version of autoconf/automake
> configure and install them all with no flags
> put /usr/local/bin in $PATH
> and as long as I defined "every" correct/sufficient, be able to
> make arbitrary edits to arbitrary projects, and just run
> the usual configure+make on them and the right thing would happen.
>
> Or even, better yet, error if I don't have the matching version
> of autoconfigure/automake, perhaps guided by a flag one way
> or the other.
>
> - Jay
Best regards,
Spiro.
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