Re: gdb and ancient GNU autotools

Sam James via Gdb
2024-02-24T17:23:22Z

Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczko.tomasz@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, 24 Feb 2024 at 16:53, Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> wrote:
> [..]
>
> > Literally NONE Linux distribution currently provides that version so in
> > case of any necessity to fix something in autoconf it is NOT POSSIBLE to
> > regenerate GNU autotools files.
> >
>
> This is wrong, per above.
>
> Did you try to make a simple experiment to clone for example gdb repo and execute "autoreconf -fiv"?

You misread what I said. I was saying that it does not need
autoconf-2.64.

>
> I've done that with autoconf 2.72, automake 1.16 and libtool 2.4.7 and here is the result:
> [...]>
> And autoconf 2.69 has been released (sic!) ONLY TWELVE years ago ..
>

Again, I actually agree with needing to move to 2.72. But you've misread
my previous message.

Also note that while autoconf-2.69 is old, it took a long time for
autoconf-2.7{0,1} to be released, so it's not quite a fair comparison.