Re: Auto-tools & Win32 & Borland C++ Builder

2001-05-24 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Axel Thimm wrote: > > [...] may be there are some hints whether people have already tried with > > borland compilers. > > Let's hope they are reading this list and will step forward to discuss it ;) sure - Borland C is much faster, and checks for errors that gcc doesn't both

Re: Libtool 1.4.3

2002-10-08 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Earnie Boyd wrote: > FWIR, Akim and other developers tried hard to maintain [back|bug]ward > compatibility. But, some of the incompatibility was ill formed autoconf > syntax so that incompatibility wasn't maintained and instead a better > parser was put into place. not at al

Re: Libtool 1.4.3

2002-10-08 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Lars Hecking wrote: > Bob Friesenhahn writes: > > On 8 Oct 2002, Akim Demaille wrote: > > > > > > There is one big question which must be answered first: will it have > > > to be Autoconf 2.13 compatible? > > > > > > I *strongly* suggest that it must not. It should AC_PREREQ

Re: Libtool 1.4.3

2002-10-08 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On 8 Oct 2002, Akim Demaille wrote: > > > > There is one big question which must be answered first: will it have > > to be Autoconf 2.13 compatible? > > > > I *strongly* suggest that it must not. It should AC_PREREQ 2.54 > > immediately. Then, I'm fi

Re: Libtool 1.4.3

2002-10-09 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On 9 Oct 2002, Akim Demaille wrote: > Whatever your opinion is, this debate is anyway a total loss of time > for all of us (except for having the opportunity of reading the few > usual good laughs from TEDdy Bear, the great clown of our mailing > lists) since Autoconf will not be more 2.13 compat

Re: Autoconf 2.54c is relased

2002-11-04 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On 4 Nov 2002, Akim Demaille wrote: >- Why should I upgrade from 2.13? more topical: why should one upgrade from 2.50-2.53? those versions are no longer maintained; they are incompatible with this week's latest design creep. -- T.E.Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisib

Re: 1,000 year backward compatability of tools

2003-02-19 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, John W. Eaton wrote: > > > > But now? Do we really have to worry about these old systems? If > > people enjoy the vintage hardware, then is it that bad if they can > > only use vintage software on it as well? > > To install moder