Re: [avrdude-dev] avrdude release?

[E. Weddington]

On 15 Jul 2004 at 22:00, Joerg Wunsch wrote:

> As Bob Paddock wrote:
> 
> > Right now cvs will not build on my freshly installed Cygwin because
> > it wants autoconf 2.57 and will not use 2.59.
> 
> > If I install 2.57 then it is going to break the stuff that wants
> > 2.59. :-<
> 
> The auto* tools are a PITA in that respect, mainly due to various
> incompatibilities in the config files these tools are accepting.
> Alas, backwards compatibility doesn't seem to have bothered the folks
> developing these tools much, it seems.
> 
> FreeBSD offers what they call `ports' for each of the major versions
> of these ports, and always installs the final binaries including a
> version number now, so you can install multiple versions in parallel.
> So there's no longer an `automake' tool, but automake14 and
> automake17.  Likewise, I've currently got autoconf213, and autoconf257
> around.
> 
> All I gotta do then is to edit the various bootstrap scripts so it
> uses the exact version number.

Swell. Any way you could convice Cygwin to adopt the same policy? ;-)

Eric