Alexander, No, FSF gcc locks onto a specific version of autoconf and the process of getting them to bump to a newer version can take quite awhile. Read...
http://www.pubbs.net/200812/gcc/2456-re-gcc-and-autoconf-261.html I guess autoconf itself doesn't have to be 2.64 but we need an alternate autoconf2.64 package which FSF gcc developers can use under fink. Jack On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 04:40:21PM -0400, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 5/1/10 3:11 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: > > FYI, Steven Bosscher has made amazing progress towards > > implementing Mach-O link time optimization for FSF gcc > > working on my machine under fink... > > > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/2010-05/msg00035.html > > > > One issue I have run into though is how to reliably produce > > the necessary fink autoconf-2.64 package for regenerating > > configure files in FSF gcc (which requires exactly 2.64). > > Steven is now testing under i386 fink and I ran into the > > same random issue as before when trying to replace the > > stock autoconf file in unstable with one for 2.64. Using > > the autoconf.info of... > > > > > > <snip> > > - From the DescDetail of the current autoconf from unstable: > > "This package installs Autoconf version 2.63. It has some compatibility > problems with older packages. If you want to work on a package that > requires > Autoconf 2.13, install the autoconf2.13 package instead. Because of > some major improvements in autoconf-2.64, that version is not > compatible either, for latest autoconf, please install the autoconf2.6 > package." > > It seems like we probably _don't_ want "autoconf" to be 2.64 based on > that, because that'll break build packages that expect to be compatible > with 2.63. > > There's no way to generate your configure files with 2.65? > - -- > Alexander Hansen > Fink User Liaison > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkvckbUACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ97EQCbBZFOx1l1WN9Xz9IANLVNHal7 > fqkAn1uwCIP+3ivllsEYPWCYdExAxeql > =RcQw > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
