autoconf

[Jan Nijtmans]

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