On Aug 10, 2016 5:44 PM, "dw" <[email protected]> wrote: > > The checked-in mingw-w64-crt/Makefile.in was generated with 1.15. > However the associated aclocal.m4 is generated with 1.14.1. I don't > know much about the build files, but is mixing and matching like this a > good idea?
Nope > Since I need to regenerate Makefile.in, I need to decide what to do: Make one commit that updates aclocal to v1.15. Make a second commit that applies your desired changes to both Makefile.am and Makefile.in. > d) I could regenerate all the build files in the entire project to 1.15 > (some are as old as 1.11.6). I used to maintain this regularly. In reality, automake doesn't have a current maintainer, so one more update would be the last for a while. > But honestly, I'm not particularly comfortable doing any of these. > > I generally assume that newer versions fix problems or have other > benefits, but sometimes they can introduce other issues. For all I know > there's a good reason things are the way they are. And I'm certainly > not going to be the best qualified to answer any questions or fix any > problems that may arise as a result of c or d. When Ralf was the maintainer, it was much easier to blindly update. Now, new versions do break stuff. But, breakages are typically easy to deal with swiftly. > Hopefully someone who knows more about this stuff than I do can check in > the 'right' fix to get things back in sync. I can take a crack at it, at least to make everything consistent. There are ways to force a minimum version, too, to prevent regressions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports. http://sdm.link/zohodev2dev _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
