Charles Wilson wrote: > I have already been given a patch to do this, but I am a little > concerned about implementation. It makes sense to me, to defer to the > -devel version, but I am concerned about ripple effects... > > IMO, if you are libtoolizing (autoconf'ing, automake'ing) a new > directory that has no existing configure.in, then the suggested > solutions should be sufficient: > create a temporary configure.in that has only "AC_REQUIRE(2.52)" > or > set path = /usr/autotool/devel/bin > > Setting up the wrapper scripts to report one version or the other -- > with no reason to prefer one over the other, such as a pre-existing > configure.in file -- is just lying.
Just to make it clear -- I am not opposed to applying the patch to effect this behavior, but I am worried about unintended consequences. Discussion? --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
