On 01/27/2013 11:16 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: > In e.g. the Cygwin case, it is often *required* that packages get > re-bootstrapped for them to work correctly, especially if they have been > bootstrapped with old tools. I even think cygport (the tool used to > package most stuff for Cygwin) by default re-bootstraps packages. I > expect this to hold for other "unstable" platforms as well, but I don't > know how many "fringe" platforms there are out there.
Yes, but in the cygwin case, the distro already maintains multiple versions of autoconf and automake, and rebootstraps a package using the same version of the tool it was originally created with, rather than rebootstrapping with the latest version of the tool and forcing the distro maintainers to heavily patch old packages. In other words, this is not necessarily a good argument. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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