Re: special tool versions to build egcs

[N8TM at aol dot com]

In a message dated 10/13/98 10:47:14 PM Pacific Daylight Time, nathan@acm.org
writes:

> egcs uses a number of special versions of tools in order to build -- one
>  example I found today is gperf, the latest I can find is 2.7, but egcs
>  has used 2.7.1. I gather from this list that autoconf is another one.
>  
>  
>  I've fixed the gperf problem by touching the generated file, which for
>  some reason was older than its source.
>  
That's a standard remedy for the gperf situation.  Apparently, the dates get
out of sequence when patch is run.

I haven't required "special" (egcs) versions of any of these tools.  I'm using
autoconf-2.12 from the gnu collection on NT, W95, Irix6.4, and hpux10.20.  The
latter two require the installation of gnu m4 and setting the environment
variables to invoke them rather than the vendor's version. There is an
autoconf in the egcs mirror directories, but I didn't find any advantage in
it.  On linux, the versions which came on the CD are working.