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

Reply via email to