On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 07:25:39PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >Now that cygwin-1.5.20 is out, I would like to release coreutils-5.97-1 >as the latest stable upstream release. However, it depends on autoconf >2.60, and requires autoreconf to fold in my cygwin-specific patches. >Should I wait for the cygwin package of autoconf 2.60, so that >coreutils can be rebuilt with a self-contained stock cygwin install? >Or should I just go ahead and release coreutils now with a big caveat >in the readme file that the user must manually install their own >autoconf 2.60 to reproduce my build?
IMO, the latter. If people really want to build from source then they should be able to follow instructions. cgf
