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Re: coreutils packaging question
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 22:02:47 -0400
- Subject: Re: coreutils packaging question
- References: <44AB1513.3030006@byu.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 07:25:39PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>Now that cygwin-1.5.20 is out, I would like to release coreutils-5.97-1
>as the latest stable upstream release. However, it depends on autoconf
>2.60, and requires autoreconf to fold in my cygwin-specific patches.
>Should I wait for the cygwin package of autoconf 2.60, so that
>coreutils can be rebuilt with a self-contained stock cygwin install?
>Or should I just go ahead and release coreutils now with a big caveat
>in the readme file that the user must manually install their own
>autoconf 2.60 to reproduce my build?
IMO, the latter. If people really want to build from source then they should
be able to follow instructions.
cgf