[Rubyinstaller-devel] autoconf 1.6

Luis Lavena
Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:06:29 -0000

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Roger Pack <rogerpack2005 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Would there be any problem with upgrading the autoconf version in the
> git mingw version to 1.6?  I think it''s like 1.59  now.
> Thanks!

I had various problems using 1.6 when building 1.8.6 and 1.9 from
trunk. For several reasons the generated configure scripts and the
resulting makefiles just blow up.

This also happened with usage of mingw-make (that''s why we use
msys-make).
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