From: Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty <cygwin@hamishmb.com>
To: "cygwin-apps@cygwin.com" <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: cygport: build apps with an older version of autoreconf
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 17:08:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8c483696-9cd1-f59c-00af-7278d964dcdf@hamishmb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a94631f2-74f1-cc60-d9c2-278fb6abfd2d@dronecode.org.uk>
On 27/09/2022 16:59, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 27/09/2022 16:33, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> While trying to get the latest version of wxWidgets 3.0.x to build, I
>> found that I need to use an older version of autoreconf, as the
>> format seems to have changed in a slightly incompatible way.
>>
>> The "cygautoreconf" command seems to always use the latest version of
>> autoreconf, and refuses to run if the latest version of autoreconf
>> isn't installed.
>>
>> Eventually I realised that I can just skip this step for this
>> particular package, but is there a way to use an older version of
>> autoreconf with the "cygautoreconf" command?
>
> I think this is controlled with the WANT_AUTOCONF variable?
>
> [1] https://cygwin.github.io/cygport/autotools_cygclass.html#robo803
Looks like it. My bad for not checking the manual more carefully.
Hamish
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2022-09-27 15:33 Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
2022-09-27 15:59 ` Jon Turney
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