2009/8/17 Tom Tromey <tro...@redhat.com>: > Ralf Wildenhues (CCd) went through the whole toolchain (gcc, binutils, > gdb, etc) and bumped the required auto* versions to the latest stable > releases. > > This seems to be a good idea generally, so I think we ought to do it for > Classpath as well. > > The only actual source change needed for this is to update > cp-hacking.texinfo. You might think that, given this, perhaps we should > not update the versions -- but I think it still makes sense, in that it > means that future patches can now rely on these minimums. >
The autoconf jump seems a bit steep. 2.64 was only released at the end of July, less than a month ago. > Tom > > 2009-08-15 Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de> > > * doc/cp-hacking.texinfo (Needed Tools and Libraries): Bump > Autoconf version to 2.64, Automake to 1.11, M4 to 1.4.6. > > Index: doc/cp-hacking.texinfo > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvsroot/classpath/classpath/doc/cp-hacking.texinfo,v > retrieving revision 1.7 > diff -u -r1.7 cp-hacking.texinfo > --- doc/cp-hacking.texinfo 9 Mar 2008 16:28:58 -0000 1.7 > +++ doc/cp-hacking.texinfo 17 Aug 2009 16:08:11 -0000 > @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ > This file contains important information you will need to know if you > are going to hack on the GNU Classpath project code. > > -Copyright (C) 1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2007 Free Software > Foundation, Inc. > +Copyright (C) 1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2007,2009 Free > Software Foundation, Inc. > > �...@ifnotplaintext > �...@dircategory GNU Libraries > @@ -351,13 +351,13 @@ > �...@item > CVS 1.11+ > �...@item > -automake 1.9+ > +automake 1.11+ > �...@item > -autoconf 2.59+ > +autoconf 2.64+ > �...@item > libtool 1.5+ > �...@item > -GNU m4 1.4 > +GNU m4 1.4.6 > �...@item > texinfo 4.2+ > �...@end itemize > > -- Andrew :-) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net PGP Key: 94EFD9D8 (http://subkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: F8EF F1EA 401E 2E60 15FA 7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8
