autoconf
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Dec 2 10:40:38 GMT 2021
On Dec 2 11:15, Jan Nijtmans via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> Op do 2 dec. 2021 om 10:22 schreef Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-apps:
Nope, I didn't. Make that:
On Dec 2 08:23, ASSI wrote:
> > > 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
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