Re: [avrdude-dev] avrdude release?

[Theodore A. Roth]

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Bob Paddock wrote:

> > It bothers me a bit that the code in cvs wouldn't compile (with or
> > without my patch) because of the missing stdio.h. What code was actually
> > tested?
>
> 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. :-<

All you need to do is comment out these lines in bootstrap:

  if [ "$AUTOCONF_VER" != "2.57" ]
  then
          echo "You need to use autoconf version 2.57."
          echo "You are using `${AUTOCONF} --version | head -n 1`."
          exit 1
  fi

Or even just comment out the 'exit 1' line. I don't care what you use
unless you are telling me that it's broken. At that point, we better be
using the same versions. :-)

>
> I really hate all of this tool version dependance stuff, I've run into in
> other projects too. :-(

Yeah, it's a pain, but the it forces all the developers of a project to
use the same version of the tool and thus test the same generated code.
If we all use different versions, then the configure script and
Makefiles may be divergent.

When I generate the release tarballs, I use the versions spec'd in the
bootstrap file.

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