Re: msys-autoconf 2.69-2

waterlan <waterlan-qWit8jRvyhVmR6Xm/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Keith Marshall schreef op 2013-03-04 13:28:
> 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)?
> 

Yes, that is correct.

>> 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).

In msys-autoconf 2.68-1 I only find some patches which came straight 
from Debian. I don't see what is msys specific about that.
Msys uses the standard default prefix /usr, like Linux.

I can imagine that mingw32-autoconf needs specific patches, because 
mingw32 requires a non-standard default prefix /mingw/. So I expect that 
the difference with upstream autoconf is in mingw32-autoconf, not 
msys-autoconf. I did not look into mingw32-autoconf.

regards,

-- 
Erwin Waterlander
http://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/

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