From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19636 invoked by alias); 5 Dec 2002 18:37:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 19624 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2002 18:37:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx09.cluster1.charter.net) (209.225.8.19) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 Dec 2002 18:37:34 -0000 Received: from [66.189.46.2] (HELO platinum.local.) by mx09.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with ESMTP id 36718509; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 13:37:27 -0500 Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 10:37:00 -0000 Subject: Re: [RFC] Update to current automake/autoconf/libtool versions. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v543) Cc: drow@mvista.com, ac131313@redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com, dj@delorie.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain From: Klee Dienes In-Reply-To: <200212051815.gB5IFeD10835@duracef.shout.net> Message-Id: <97F437B2-0880-11D7-A7CE-00039396EEB8@apple.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00161.txt.bz2 That sounds fine to me. My main interest here is to make updating to the most recent version of the released tools be considered the "standard" thing to do. On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 01:15 PM, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote: > Klee Dienes wrote: >> 1) Specify the versions of autoconf/automake/libtool/gettext by >> reference to official tarballs from ftp.gnu.org. In general, define >> the version used to be "the most recent officially released version of >> each tool". > > I'm not a heavy autotools guy, but I do try to maintain a standardized > build + test enviroment for gdb testing. I agree with the idea of > referring to official tarballs from ftp.gnu.org. I strongly think that > the pointer should say "autoconf 2.56", for example, rather than "the > most recent officialy released version of autoconf".