Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Preparation of Release 2.17

[Mark Brand]

On 12/03/2010 06:34 PM, Tony Theodore wrote:
> On 3 December 2010 10:26, Volker Grabsch<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > Dear mingw-cross-env team,
> >
> > Once again, it's time to finish things and to prepare our next release.
> > I just upgraded all packages and included all contributed new packages.
> >
> > Please check whether there are any open issues with our current
> > development version, and please don't add any new functionality
> > or packages until the release.
> I just checked in a portability fix for gstreamer (and plugins) that
> in retrospect might need some review:
>
> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/mingw-cross-env/rev/c13830284f24
>
> It's a bit of a hack, without an upstream patch - but I can't see
> another way. I managed to find an autoconf macro:
>
> AG_GST_SET_PACKAGE_RELEASE_DATETIME_WITH_NANO
>
> that introduces a (stray?) dot in ./configure, but I can't trace it
> back any further. It seems to be a recent or gstreamer-specific
> addition to autoconf. The only other thing that may work is running
> configure with bash (untested) i.e. "cd '$(1)'&&  bash configure",
> though that doesn't seem much cleaner.
>
> This fix works on FreeBSD, OSX, and Ubuntu.

Hi Tony,

I remember a stray dot caused by "echo -n"  in freetds configure a while 
ago, but I don't see any "echo -n" here. Gstreamer's 
common/m4/gst-package-release-datetime.m4 does not have any obvious (to 
me) bashisms.

It's just a wild hunch, but I wonder about the "awk" in 
common/extract-release-date-from-doap-file which is called by that 
macro. Wasn't there a case once where "gawk" worked better?

Mark