On Dec 2 14:18, ASSI wrote: > Jan Nijtmans via Cygwin-apps writes: > > My 2c : Cygwin should - at least - allow people to install autoconf-2.71 > > and - as long as the packages are prepared for it - things shouldn't break. > > As I said, I haven't looked at it in any detail, but it seems that > autoconf is already multi-version, so I guess it would be possible to > introduce an autoconf2.7 package in addition to the existing two. > That's a slightly wonky way to do that when we expect to later on just > replace 2.69 with 2.71, though.
Don't do that. https://lwn.net/Articles/839395/ autoconf 2.70 and later are new, backward incompatible versions, so they should go into a new-and-shiny-and-not-yet-existing autoconf2.7 package. Corinna
