From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from omta002.cacentral1.a.cloudfilter.net (omta002.cacentral1.a.cloudfilter.net [3.97.99.33]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1F4D93858431 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2021 06:08:46 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org 1F4D93858431 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=SystematicSw.ab.ca Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=systematicsw.ab.ca Received: from shw-obgw-4003a.ext.cloudfilter.net ([10.228.9.183]) by cmsmtp with ESMTP id sSBxmV8YPztEjsfGvmT0U6; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 06:08:45 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.105] ([68.147.0.90]) by cmsmtp with ESMTP id sfGumddljmX1ksfGummoO3; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 06:08:45 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.4 cv=Fe4keby6 c=1 sm=1 tr=0 ts=61a862ed a=T+ovY1NZ+FAi/xYICV7Bgg==:117 a=T+ovY1NZ+FAi/xYICV7Bgg==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=94nOnFI1EgyDtX4ev68A:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 Message-ID: <2262e475-e281-bfc9-b00c-c471b8ad58cb@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 23:08:44 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.3.2 Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: autoconf Content-Language: en-CA To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <87mtlk6qvq.fsf@Rainer.invalid> From: Brian Inglis Organization: Systematic Software In-Reply-To: <87mtlk6qvq.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4xfIQI9nadIS+cZ/z6dNPr7Bn0DTtZoo4Vl7CD0IxpEN5jvqpmFkrW4XzV62jRs4Rzu5qos7zjBQL9a1TTLQa9hx9es1ebH91N82LhdPv2iWTiQEzL3/cN Rl4m73Gnr2H236jQUYsCKE2jlhe2KMFxgKtkAbIKDBawNeNjwq1M7aShOyFtHRUBuU3xo3ssjgOma/HIB5mnj/9YkZhzw0m/xzg= X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1165.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY, NICE_REPLY_A, RCVD_IN_BARRACUDACENTRAL, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_NONE, TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Cygwin package maintainer discussion list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 06:08:47 -0000 On 2021-12-01 12:56, Achim Gratz wrote: > Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps writes: >> anyone working or planning to take over the Autoconf ? > I haven't, but looking at the packages I picked up maybe I should. >> The 2.71 version seems becoming popular in some package source code. > How likely is it that they actually rely on that version already? Somewhat likely for some GNU packages and gnulib macros that specify version prereqs: AC_PREREQ is used in 80 packages I have sources for. After that version released in January, I've only had to patch one package so far, which specified it in August, and they later reduced it after discussion with distro package maintainers: $ grep 'AC_PREREQ(\[2\.[0-9]\+\])' */*.patch bison/bison-3.7.90-revert-autoconf-upgrade.patch:-AC_PREREQ([2.71]) bison/bison-3.7.90-revert-autoconf-upgrade.patch:+AC_PREREQ([2.68]) wget2/configure-ac.upstream.patch:-AC_PREREQ([2.67]) wget2/configure-ac.upstream.patch:+AC_PREREQ([2.69]) Xcurses/x11-aclocal-m4-libtoolize.patch:+[AC_PREREQ([2.62])dnl We use AC_PATH_PROGS_FEATURE_CHECK -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. [Data in binary units and prefixes, physical quantities in SI.]