[ITP] autoconf2.7

[Ken Brown]

On 12/9/2021 5:24 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Dec  8 19:46, Achim Gratz wrote:
>> Achim Gratz writes:
>>> +		case "${WANT_AUTOCONF}" in
>>> +		2.5|'')
>>> +			WANT_AUTOCONF=2.5
>>> +			case $(autoconf --version 2> /dev/null | head -n 1) in
>>>   			autoconf*2.[56]?) ;;
>>>   			*)	error "autoconf2.5 is required to build this package" ;;
>>> +			esac
>>> +			;;
>>> +		2.7)
>>> +			WANT_AUTOCONF=2.7
>>
>> If anybody prefers cygport to default to 2.7, then the "|''" part of the
>> above patch needs to be moved to the pattern clause for 2.7.
> 
> We should do that, IMHO.

I agree, as I already said in a different thread.  Either way, there remains the 
question of how to get cygport patched.  Until that happens, no maintainers can 
use autoconf 2.71 unless they patch cygport locally, and no SCALLYWAG builds can 
use autoconf 2.71.

Yaakov, any chance you would accept a co-maintainer of cygport (Jon Turney seems 
like the obvious choice if he's willing) so that we can move forward on this and 
other patches that have been proposed?

Ken