Re: autoconf

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>]

On Dec  2 11:15, Jan Nijtmans via Cygwin-apps wrote:

> Op do 2 dec. 2021 om 10:22 schreef Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-apps:

Nope, I didn't.  Make that:

On Dec  2 08:23, ASSI wrote:

> > > Most distros still package 2.69 or even earlier and that includes some
> > > substantial rolling release distros.  As long as these guys don't use
> > > the newer version it seems unlikely that we would actually need it, plus
> > > I don't see us spending time and effort debugging things that aren't
> > > even Cygwin specific.
> 
> My 2c : Cygwin should - at least - allow people to install autoconf-2.71
> and - as long as the packages are prepared for it - things shouldn't break.
> 
> If I install autoconf-2.71 locally, and then compile Tcl 8.6.12, which
> contained in tcl.cygport:
>     src_compile() {
>         cd ${S}/unix
>         cygautoreconf
>         ...
> 
> $ cygport tcl.cygport compile
> >>> Compiling tcl-8.6.12-1.x86_64
> *** ERROR: autoconf2.5 is required to build this package
> 
> 
> My solution was, simply to remove the "cygautoreconf" line from the
> cygport file, then it works again.
> 
> Somewhere in cygport, a check is done for the autoconf version, please
> change this check to allow autoconf 2.71 (as well as 2.59 and 2.69).
> Then I can put back the "cygautoreconf" line in tcl.cygport.
> 
> Thanks!
>           Jan Nijtmans