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Re: [PATCH 1/5] Drop support for 'configure.in' as the Autoconf input fi
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [PATCH 1/5] Drop support for 'configure.in' as the Autoconf input file |
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Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:13:03 -0700 |
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On 01/27/2013 11:16 AM, Peter Rosin wrote:
> In e.g. the Cygwin case, it is often *required* that packages get
> re-bootstrapped for them to work correctly, especially if they have been
> bootstrapped with old tools. I even think cygport (the tool used to
> package most stuff for Cygwin) by default re-bootstraps packages. I
> expect this to hold for other "unstable" platforms as well, but I don't
> know how many "fringe" platforms there are out there.
Yes, but in the cygwin case, the distro already maintains multiple
versions of autoconf and automake, and rebootstraps a package using the
same version of the tool it was originally created with, rather than
rebootstrapping with the latest version of the tool and forcing the
distro maintainers to heavily patch old packages. In other words, this
is not necessarily a good argument.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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