Re: msys-autoconf 2.69-2

Keith Marshall <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.devel
Organization MinGW Project
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 01/03/13 21:07, Erwin Waterlander wrote:
> I created new autoconf 2.69 packages for msys.
> See http://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/msys/autoconf/
>
> I removed all the debian patches, because they were also not in the 2.69
> version for Debian any more.
> So there were no src patches left. This is plain vanilla autoconf.
> There was one failing test. See README.
> README has been updated.

Am I interpreting this correctly?  Is this a replacement for the MSYS 
specific build of autoconf, (i.e. the one intended for use by those of 
us who develop MSYS components), rather that the more generally useful 
mingw32-autoconf, (i.e. the one for MSYS users, developing for native 
Windows application deployment)?

> I wait several days and then I upload these packages to SF.

Before you do, you may wish to review Chuck's reasoning for maintaining 
the two separate package schemata.  In particular, if you are upgrading 
the mingw32-autoconf packages, you may need to consider his stratagem,
(derived from Gentoo package formulation, IIRC), for providing version 
support for autoconf-2.13+ vs. autoconf-2.50+ compatibility.

(Please see: http://tinyurl.com/cwp59nt or http://tinyurl.com/casdo4c 
for some background on Chuck's rationale).

-- 
Regards,
Keith.

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