Re: [ITP] gcc-tools-autoconf, gcc-tools-automake

[Charles Wilson <cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm>]

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> Charles Wilson wrote:
>> Special versions of "pristine" (that is, no cygwin-special patches) of
>> autoconf-2.59 and automake-1.9.6 as required by gcc, installed into
>> /opt/gcc-tools/{bin|lib|share}.
> 
> There's another, *much* simpler way to do this; .cygport attached.  And
> yes, I would call it autoconf2.59.

D'oh. Here's a bigger reason why this won't work:
    /usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/*
will clash between the cygwin pacakge autoconf2.5-2.63-* and
autoconf2.59-2.59-*. So you could only have one or the other installed
at a time, but setup.exe doesn't support the conflicts: keyword.

I could also resurrect autoconf2.5-2.59 as the "permanent" prev: for the
autoconf2.5 series, but (a) you still could only have one or the other,
2.59 or 2.63, installed at a time, and (b) that still doesn't solve the
automake-1.9-pristine problem detailed earlier.

--
Chuck