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Re: [avrdude-dev] avrdude release?
From: |
E. Weddington |
Subject: |
Re: [avrdude-dev] avrdude release? |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:13:15 -0600 |
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
- Re: [avrdude-dev] avrdude release?, (continued)
- Re: [avrdude-dev] avrdude release?, Theodore A. Roth, 2004/07/15
- Re: [avrdude-dev] avrdude release?, Bob Paddock, 2004/07/15
- Re: [avrdude-dev] avrdude release?, Theodore A. Roth, 2004/07/15
- Re: [avrdude-dev] avrdude release?, Bob Paddock, 2004/07/15
- Re: [avrdude-dev] avrdude release?, Bob Paddock, 2004/07/15
- Re: [avrdude-dev] avrdude release?, Theodore A. Roth, 2004/07/15
- Re: [avrdude-dev] avrdude release?, Bob Paddock, 2004/07/16
- Re: [avrdude-dev] avrdude release?, E. Weddington, 2004/07/15
- Re: [avrdude-dev] avrdude release?, Theodore A. Roth, 2004/07/15
- Re: [avrdude-dev] avrdude release?, Joerg Wunsch, 2004/07/15
- Re: [avrdude-dev] avrdude release?,
E. Weddington <=
- Re: [avrdude-dev] avrdude release?, Bob Paddock, 2004/07/15
- Re: [avrdude-dev] avrdude release?, Joerg Wunsch, 2004/07/15
- [avrdude-dev] The wonderful world of autoconf (was: Re: avrdude release?), E. Weddington, 2004/07/15
- Re: [avrdude-dev] The wonderful world of autoconf (was: Re: avrdude release?), Theodore A. Roth, 2004/07/15
Re: [avrdude-dev] avrdude release?, Bob Paddock, 2004/07/14