From: Fabian G. <fa...@gr...> - 2011-11-28 10:58:20
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Am 31.05.2011 16:19, schrieb Charles Wilson: > One problem with modern versions of (bash, coreutils) is that they have > been modified to rely on new features of modern cygwin. That is, I > doubt you could compile bash-4.x on cygwin-1.5 any longer, much less > cygwin-1.3 on which msys is based. This is why the autotools gurus > always say "rely on feature-test macros and not platform macros" -- e.g. Sorry for revisiting this old discussion, but what is the long-time perspective regarding MSYS getting more and more outdated? I mean, it is "good enough" as it currently is, sure, but on the other hand has already missed a lot of bug fixes and features added by new upstream releases and will it continue missing them. - Fabian |