ANN: Upgrade rtems-4.11-autoconf to autoconf-2.69

[Gedare Bloom]

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Ralf Corsepius
<ralf.corsepius at rtems.org> wrote:
> On 05/23/2012 05:59 PM, Gedare Bloom wrote:
>>
>> how come when i do bootstrap -c I do not have a "clean" checkout?
>>
>> ./bootstrap -c
>> removing automake generated Makefile.in files
>> removing configure files
>> removing aclocal.m4 files
>>
>> git status
>> # On branch master
>> #
>> # Changed but not updated:
>> #   (use "git add/rm<file>..." to update what will be committed)
>> #   (use "git checkout --<file>..." to discard changes in working
>> directory)
>> #
>> #       deleted:    config.guess
>> #       deleted:    config.sub
>> #       deleted:    install-sh
>> #       deleted:    missing
>> #
>
> There are two perspectives on this:
>
> 1. We always want them to be sync'ed with the versions in automake.
>
> => ./bootstrap (actually automake) needs to update them.
> Afterwards, they must match with the versions in git.
>
> This is what is currently implemented.
>
>
I see, so ./bootstrap should (and does) restore the versions in git.
I'm not sure why these files are even in git then if we use approach
#1?

> 2. We want to maintain them manually.
> =>  bootstrap -c must not remove them and ./bootstrap must not re-add or
> update them.
>
It seems like #2 would mean we should keep the files in git.

> Ralf
>