Re: Automake 1.5

[Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>]

On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 01:35:56PM +0100, James Youngman wrote:
>"Ronald Landheer" <info@rlsystems.net> writes:
>>Recently, I have re-installed and updated Cygwin (the update part is
>>done every Sunday) and have installed Automake 1.5 in the process.
>
>[...]
>
>>Thus, Automake 1.5 broke my bootstrap script and does not allow me to
>>compile Eleanor without problems any more.  My questions are:
>
>I have also had to downgrade this stuff, becuase the latest version of
>autoconf insists on using config.sub even if all you want to do is
>figure out the value of EXEHDR.  Previous versions of autoconf didn't
>require that.  The problem is that the current version of automake
>doesn't know to include config.sub even though autoconf needs it :-(

FWIW, Chuck Wilson has also identified some incompatibilities between
the newest version of autoconf and libiberty's configure.in.

I wonder if we should drop back to an older version for a while in the
cygwin distro.

cgf

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