coreutils packaging question

coreutils packaging question

[Eric Blake]

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Now that cygwin-1.5.20 is out, I would like to release coreutils-5.97-1 as
the latest stable upstream release.  However, it depends on autoconf 2.60,
and requires autoreconf to fold in my cygwin-specific patches.  Should I
wait for the cygwin package of autoconf 2.60, so that coreutils can be
rebuilt with a self-contained stock cygwin install?  Or should I just go
ahead and release coreutils now with a big caveat in the readme file that
the user must manually install their own autoconf 2.60 to reproduce my build?

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Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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Re: coreutils packaging question

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 07:25:39PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>Now that cygwin-1.5.20 is out, I would like to release coreutils-5.97-1
>as the latest stable upstream release.  However, it depends on autoconf
>2.60, and requires autoreconf to fold in my cygwin-specific patches.
>Should I wait for the cygwin package of autoconf 2.60, so that
>coreutils can be rebuilt with a self-contained stock cygwin install?
>Or should I just go ahead and release coreutils now with a big caveat
>in the readme file that the user must manually install their own
>autoconf 2.60 to reproduce my build?

IMO, the latter.  If people really want to build from source then they should
be able to follow instructions.

cgf