Re: [Mingw-users] Newbie: how to install libtool

[Keith M. <kei...@to...>]

Earnie Boyd wrote:
> The autotools chain requires that all of the tools have the same 
> prefix.  So if you rebuild autoconf, automake and libtool with a
> prefix of /mingw then yes installing to /mingw should work.  But
> would might want to clean up your msys paths.

Since the msysDTK originally put these packages into the MSYS tree,
maybe it's not so clever to set /mingw as the default installation
path for the respective mingwPORTs.  Since MSYS is officially named
as a prequisite for installing any mingwPORT, and since these three
mingwPORT packages supercede the earlier msysDTK versions, would it
not be more sensible to set the old msysDTK prefix as the default
installation path, in each of these three mingwPORTs?

I have autoconf-2.59 in my MSYS tree, rather than my MinGW tree, so
that would suit me admirably.  What would other users prefer?

Regards,
Keith.