Re: autoconf version to use?

2015-09-11 Thread Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas
patrick keshishian writes: > Hi, > > Is there any preference/rule as to which version of autoconf > one should use in a new port? > > One with the largest version number or the lowest one > which works? I'd say use the same version as upstream if possible. -- jca | PGP :

Re: autoconf version to use?

2015-09-11 Thread patrick keshishian
On 9/11/15, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote: > patrick keshishian writes: > >> Hi, >> >> Is there any preference/rule as to which version of autoconf >> one should use in a new port? >> >> One with the largest version number or the lowest one >> which works? >

Re: autoconf version to use?

2015-09-11 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2015/09/11 01:12, patrick keshishian wrote: > On 9/11/15, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote: > > patrick keshishian writes: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> Is there any preference/rule as to which version of autoconf > >> one should use in a new port? > >> > >> One

Re: autoconf version to use?

2015-09-11 Thread Peter Hessler
I usually use the same one that they originally generated configure from. It's often a comment in some of the files. Annoyingly, I've ran into the situation a few times where version X.Y works fine, but X.Y-1 and X.Y+1 are full of fail :(. On 2015 Sep 10 (Thu) at 13:59:56 -0700 (-0700),

autoconf version to use?

2015-09-10 Thread patrick keshishian
Hi, Is there any preference/rule as to which version of autoconf one should use in a new port? One with the largest version number or the lowest one which works? --patrick