Re: cannot build from git/no daily snapshots

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2012, Peter Rosin wrote:
> There is no evidence that modern m4 does not build properly on MSYS, which
> is what is interesting. A MinGW-m4 is not all that interesting in the
> autotools context. What Bob tried (a MinGW-m4) was simply wrong, but the
> reason for the attempt was surely because he had no tools to build MSYS
> binaries installed. Very few do, and I suspect that most that do have them
> installed don't know exactly what they're doing...

Right.  My MinGW install is a random MinGW64 build that I installed 
and passed my testing so that I what I am currently using.  I could 
search for a more recent MinGW64 build which might include a newer m4. 
I did not see any MSYS development capacity in the MinGW64 I 
downloaded and did not have time to research how to obtain it.  Time 
is short so I tend to cut corners.

> Bob wrote this:
>
>         "Please make it so that it is possible to use a source tree
>         which has a .hg directory even if there is no 'git' program
>         available and even if autotools are not the exact same
>         version used to bootstrap the tree."
>
> Assuming he meant a .git directory, this is something I need for my
> workflow and something which has worked, so it is a regression. I'm
> not sure if I want to --skip-git in my bootstrap, because then the
> Cygwin side of things are not "as usual".

Right.  I meant .git. :-)

It used to be possible to run the libtool test suite in a MSYS shell 
using a CIFS mount of the same source tree that I use for my Unix type 
systems.  I used to do that on a periodic basis.  Since the bootstrap 
improvements, this does not seem to be possible.  Perhaps I might 
encounter a MSYS install which includes the newer m4 and a workable 
'git'.

Bob
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