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Re: Automake 1.6 / Autoconf 2.53


From: Alain Magloire
Subject: Re: Automake 1.6 / Autoconf 2.53
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 10:31:11 -0400 (EDT)

> 
> On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 01:54:25PM -0400, Alain Magloire wrote:
> 
> > > I want to get the update done to the latest autotools.  My offer
> > > still stands to port libtool to QNX if someone can provide me
> > > access to a box.
> 
> > > Sam?  Alain?  What are your thoughts?
> 
> > On vacation 'til 15 July 8-)
> 
> Welcome back! =)

;-(

> 
> > But why is it so important to upgrade?  I could understand your
> > rationale for inetutils, it was a mess but for mailutils ?
> 
> A few different reasons:
> 
> 1) The different versions of automake don't co-exist, so I have to
> keep reinstalling different versions depending on if I'm working on
> mailutils or inetutils (or radar, or cron, etc...)
> 
> 2) They've cleaned up much of the syntax, as Sergey had mentioned.
> config.h.in is now completely generated from configure.[ac,in], so
> it's easier to keep it all clean.
> 
> 3) Support for per-executable and per-library compilation flags.  This
> becomes more important to handle cleanly as we add more tools.
> 
> My offer still stands that if someone can provide me with a Qnx box to
> ssh into, I'll tweak libtool and get the QNX behaviour in upstream.  I
> spoke with Sam a bit about this, and it sounds like it will be really
> easy.

Ok,  I've no more objections, in any case my home QNX box is fried(motherboard)
gone for good.  I only have a GNU/Linux box, I will update my tools.




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