Special versions of "pristine" (that is, no cygwin-special patches) of
autoconf-2.59 and automake-1.9.6 as required by gcc, installed into
/opt/gcc-tools/{bin|lib|share}.This should make it easier for Dave, and those who want to help him, to develop gcc and binutils -- avoiding things like this: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-12/msg00201.html I already maintain "normal" autoconf and automake packages, but I'm soliciting comments on these new packages because they are a little odd. And no official packages yet uses the /opt tree, so... http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-3.12.html -- Chuck http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/gcc-tools-autoconf-2.59-2-src.tar.bz2 http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/gcc-tools-autoconf-2.59-2.tar.bz2 http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/gcc-tools-autoconf.hint sdesc: "(gcc-special) automatic configure script builder" ldesc: "This is a custom version of autoconf, installed into /opt/gcc-tools/ for the use of gcc developers. Gcc requires an unpatched, pristine version of autoconf when preparing patches for official submission." category: Devel requires: m4 perl coreutils texinfo http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/gcc-tools-automake-1.9.6-2-src.tar.bz2 http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/gcc-tools-automake-1.9.6-2.tar.bz2 http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/gcc-tools-automake.hint sdesc: "(gcc-special) a tool for generating GNU-compliant Makefiles" ldesc: "This is a custom version of automake, installed into /opt/gcc-tools/ for the use of gcc developers. Gcc requires an unpatched, pristine version of automake when preparing patches for official submission." category: Devel requires: gcc-tools-autoconf perl coreutils m4 texinfo -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
