[PATCH 4/N] The big bump

[Dave Korn]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> I have never ever gotten a full src tree to cleanly build with
> --enable-maintainer-mode, and IIRC not even without.  I've always just
> worked on the git binutils-gdb mirror.  The rest of the tree has IMHO
> lacked lots of love at least on the build system side.  If you tell me
> that it is used actively, and they are generally willing to see updated
> build machinery (and there is somebody to review patches to this end,
> timely, too), then I would look into this task.  But last time I looked
> I didn't think a drift apart would make things any worse; for example,
> Autoconf versions used were quite inconsistent already.

  Well, the winsup/ directory is pretty heavily used, winsup == cygwin +
mingw!  I can help with the testing if you can help with the patching; winsup
depends on newlib, so I can test those together for you.  I think Joseph's
cut-down list looks about right for the rest.

    cheers,
      DaveK