From: Charles W. <cwi...@us...> - 2010-09-26 05:35:48
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These are not the libtool and autoconf you want. These packages are specific for building MSYS applications; most people will want to install the "mingw32-autoconf*" and "mingw32-libtool" packages, not these. The latest libtool and autoconf for msys are now available. Fresh installations should get this latest release by default (assuming MSYS System Builder, the metapackage containing msys-libtool and various other tools, is selected). To upgrade (*) an existing installation, use mingw-get: mingw-get update # this downloads the new manifests mingw-get install msys-libtool msys-libltdl msys-autoconf (*) As of mingw-get-0.1-alpha4, "upgrading", which should *remove* the currently-installed version and then download and install the new version, skips that first step. It simply installs the new version "on top of" the old one. This is probably acceptable for most people; the fastidious can manually delete /usr/share/doc/MSYS/libtool-$OLD.RELEASE_NOTES.txt /usr/share/doc/MSYS/autoconf-$OLD.RELEASE_NOTES.txt and /usr/share/doc/libtool/$OLD/ /usr/share/doc/autoconf/$OLD/ (FYI, I've also fixed a missing dependency in msys-bison's manifest, where it would neglect to install the msys-m4-bin dependency). -- Chuck |