From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11554 invoked by alias); 11 Apr 2002 00:41:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 11545 invoked from network); 11 Apr 2002 00:41:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (128.2.145.6) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 11 Apr 2002 00:41:00 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 16vSe7-0000qM-00; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 20:41:03 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 17:41:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: fnf@ninemoons.com Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Why autoconf 2.13? Message-ID: <20020410204103.A3222@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: fnf@ninemoons.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <200204110039.g3B0dCT03033@fred.ninemoons.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200204110039.g3B0dCT03033@fred.ninemoons.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00161.txt.bz2 On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 05:39:12PM -0700, Fred Fish wrote: > Is there some reason that gdb is using a 3 year old version of > autoconf instead of the latest official FSF release (2.53 I think)? > > -Fred Because all the rest of sourceware is. Every so often there are noises made about moving forward, but 2.53 and 2.13 aren't even mostly compatible in practice. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer