On 2021-12-01 12:56, Achim Gratz wrote:
Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps writes:
anyone working or planning to take over the Autoconf ?
I haven't, but looking at the packages I picked up maybe I should.
The 2.71 version seems becoming popular in some package source code.
How likely is it that they actually rely on that version already?
Somewhat likely for some GNU packages and gnulib macros that specify
version prereqs: AC_PREREQ is used in 80 packages I have sources for.
After that version released in January, I've only had to patch one
package so far, which specified it in August, and they later reduced it
after discussion with distro package maintainers:
$ grep 'AC_PREREQ(\[2\.[0-9]\+\])' */*.patch
bison/bison-3.7.90-revert-autoconf-upgrade.patch:-AC_PREREQ([2.71])
bison/bison-3.7.90-revert-autoconf-upgrade.patch:+AC_PREREQ([2.68])
wget2/configure-ac.upstream.patch:-AC_PREREQ([2.67])
wget2/configure-ac.upstream.patch:+AC_PREREQ([2.69])
Xcurses/x11-aclocal-m4-libtoolize.patch:+[AC_PREREQ([2.62])dnl We use
AC_PATH_PROGS_FEATURE_CHECK
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