Re: net-snmp-5.8.1.pre2 released

On 2020-02-26 04:04, Wes Hardaker wrote:
> Bart Van Assche <[email protected]> writes:
>> One change seems to be missing from this list, namely commit
>> 9a2753282c6a ("new autoconf"). That commit regenerated the configure
>> script with autoconf v2.69. Has it been considered to also switch to
>> newer versions of automake (v1.11 -> v1.16) and libtool (v2.4 ->
>> v2.4.6)? I have to reapply several patches manually after every
>> autoreconf run to fix bugs in the old versions of these tools. One of
>> these patches has been documented on
>> http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/Build_System.
> 
> Yes, the packaging mechanism does rebuild autoconf based on the last
> agreed version that we proposed using.  Which was 2.69.
> 
> Maybe we should discuss what the minimum tools available should be for
> new releases (again)?

Hi Wes,

How about upgrading both libtool and automake to the latest available
versions? libtool v2.4.6 + automake 1.11.6 support FreeBSD 10 and MinGW
but the versions endorsed for the v5.8 branch not.

Bart.