Re: Bootstrapping from cvs

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:

Tom> I suggest we use AM_MAINTAINER_MODE.  I know this is not always
Tom> popular, but I think autoconf is a special case.  It is one of
Tom> the few tools that has this bootstrapping problem.

Akim> Really, I'm against it.

Tom> How do you check out and build a new set of auto*?  

I have no problems :(  I'm ready to make it easier, but I don't know
what problem you have :(

I can guess one though: Autoconf 2.54 requires 2.54, and CVS
Autoconf requires 2.54.  Therefore, if the timestamps are broken,
you'll have the problem of trying to setup CVS Autoconf with itself,
which fails.

I suggest installing 2.54 from its tarball.

Tom> I really can't get it to work.  I'm looking at spending another
Tom> hour, again, digging into this.  It's really quite frustrating.

Yes, I understand this :(  But AM_MAINTAINER_MODE is still the wrong
track.  What we need is to find a means to fix the behavior of CVS wrt
timestamps.  Gary seems to have a few ideas.