From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: autoconf
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2021 14:32:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YajLCIqihePR03bJ@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sfvbcfgg.fsf@Otto.invalid>
On Dec 2 14:18, ASSI wrote:
> Jan Nijtmans via Cygwin-apps writes:
> > 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.
>
> As I said, I haven't looked at it in any detail, but it seems that
> autoconf is already multi-version, so I guess it would be possible to
> introduce an autoconf2.7 package in addition to the existing two.
> That's a slightly wonky way to do that when we expect to later on just
> replace 2.69 with 2.71, though.
Don't do that. https://lwn.net/Articles/839395/
autoconf 2.70 and later are new, backward incompatible versions, so they
should go into a new-and-shiny-and-not-yet-existing autoconf2.7 package.
Corinna
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-02 13:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-30 20:29 autoconf Marco Atzeri
2021-12-01 19:56 ` autoconf Achim Gratz
2021-12-02 6:08 ` autoconf Brian Inglis
2021-12-02 7:23 ` autoconf ASSI
2021-12-02 9:21 ` autoconf Corinna Vinschen
2021-12-02 10:15 ` autoconf Jan Nijtmans
2021-12-02 10:40 ` autoconf Corinna Vinschen
2021-12-02 10:45 ` autoconf Jan Nijtmans
2021-12-02 13:18 ` autoconf ASSI
2021-12-02 13:32 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2021-12-02 16:36 ` autoconf Ken Brown
2021-12-02 13:19 ` autoconf Ken Brown
2021-12-02 18:18 ` autoconf Achim Gratz
2021-12-02 19:41 ` autoconf Achim Gratz
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