Re: gdb and ancient GNU autotools
Sam James via Gdb <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gdb.devel |
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| Organization | Gentoo |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Tomasz Kłoczko <[email protected]> writes: > On Sat, 24 Feb 2024 at 16:53, Sam James <[email protected]> wrote: > [..] > > > Literally NONE Linux distribution currently provides that version so in > > case of any necessity to fix something in autoconf it is NOT POSSIBLE to > > regenerate GNU autotools files. > > > > This is wrong, per above. > > Did you try to make a simple experiment to clone for example gdb repo and execute "autoreconf -fiv"? You misread what I said. I was saying that it does not need autoconf-2.64. > > I've done that with autoconf 2.72, automake 1.16 and libtool 2.4.7 and here is the result: > [...]> > And autoconf 2.69 has been released (sic!) ONLY TWELVE years ago .. > Again, I actually agree with needing to move to 2.72. But you've misread my previous message. Also note that while autoconf-2.69 is old, it took a long time for autoconf-2.7{0,1} to be released, so it's not quite a fair comparison.