Re: config.h.in wants to be free^Wrebuilt

[Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 01:20:26PM -0800, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
> 
> > I'm using ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/libstdc++/20000619-maintainer-tools.tar.gz
> > but it's clearly showing its age.
> 
> Yep. Back then, this was the minimal set of autotools that worked. Now, 
> it's a bit long in the tooth.  

The problem (I think) is that this minimal set is stock 2.13 plus some extra
patches, right?  So we shouldn't be using stock 2.13 autoconf/autoheader,
but the next version up is 2.50 and that's not yet ready for prime time.[*]

For automake/libtool, however, this minimal set is now too old.


> > I'll try playing with the stock tools and see what changes.
> 
> Please let me know. Again, I don't mind standardizing on the autotools
> used, since this is one of those small things that is actually getting
> more annoying as time goes on. 

The autoconf situation looks to be hopeless; we can't standardize on
intermediate versions because they didn't change the version number,
and it's too soon to require 2.5x.

I propose standardizing on automake 1.4-p5 as a start.


Phil
[*]  Well, it's okay for some prime time, but not for GCC runtime lib
     prime time.

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