On 01/08/2009, at 23:56, Jack Howarth wrote: > On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 09:00:07PM -0500, Peter O'Gorman wrote: >> Martin Costabel wrote: >> >>> I guess pogma needs to add another patch for autoconf-2.64. >>> Or Fink needs to go back to autoconf-2.63. >>> >> >> Well, gcc requires the use of specific, non-vendor patched versions >> of >> the autotools, the version of autoconf currently required is 2.59. >> Using >> any other version to autoreconf gcc is problematic. Ralf, Paolo etc >> are >> working on updating gcc's autoconf to 2.64 for gcc-4.5.x. >> >> Still, I hope that the use of undocumented m4 sugar and autoconf >> macros >> in the wild is minimal. I am still willing to revert the autoconf >> package to 2.63 and increment the epoch, I am not willing to patch >> autoconf to keep previous behaviour for m4_copy and m4_rename just >> for >> the gcc42 package though. >> >> Martin, in your opinion is the new autoconf package too >> incompatible to >> keep being named 'autoconf'? >> >> Peter >> -- >> Peter O'Gorman >> http://pogma.com > > Peter, > I am in the process of checking in new gcc42-4.2.4-1000 info and > patch files which backports the same configure support for --disable- > libjava-multilib > so that regeneration of the configure files can be avoided. I have > been > using this approach in gcc43 and gcc44 but never backported it to > gcc42. > Jack
Revision 1001 builds/installs on Intel 10.5.7, Xcode 3.1.3, 32-bit Fink. If GCC needs a specific version of autoconf then avoiding reconfiguration altogether looks like a robust (and possibly the best) solution. Cheers, -- monipol http://finkers.wordpress.com Submitting a Fink bug report? Read this: http://www.finkproject.org/doc/netiquette/index.php http://finkers.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/bug-reports/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
