From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11162 invoked by alias); 6 Dec 2002 13:28:22 -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 11056 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2002 13:28:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl) (213.192.72.1) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 6 Dec 2002 13:28:17 -0000 Received: from localhost by delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA26843; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 14:24:57 +0100 (MET) Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 05:34:00 -0000 From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" To: Doug Evans cc: Klee Dienes , Daniel Jacobowitz , DJ Delorie , ac131313@redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFC] Update to current automake/autoconf/libtool versions. In-Reply-To: <15855.41422.793808.975309@casey.transmeta.com> Message-ID: Organization: Technical University of Gdansk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00220.txt.bz2 On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Doug Evans wrote: > > 1) Specify the versions of autoconf/automake/libtool/gettext by > > reference to official tarballs from ftp.gnu.org. > > This places a requirement on the maintainers of ftp.gnu.org > to not delete said tarballs until binutils has been updated. > I dont' think you or they want that kind of coupling. Historically this is not a problem. The maintainers of ftp.gnu.org are not that hasty in deleting old stuff (which is the right way). There are old releases of autoconf back to 2.7, automake back to 1.0, gettext 0.10 and libtool 1.0. The worst that happens is moving stuff from /gnu to /old-gnu. > Better to uncouple things and have your own tarballs. > Then you can upgrade according to your schedule, not theirs. Of course archiving copies separately is not a problem, either. Then you can write: "Get copies from ftp.gnu.org, or use versions archived here." -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +