minGW-get, gcc-testing, dpkg-testing, 32-bit vs. 64-bit hosts, and autotools versioning

[Gedare Bloom]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:
> Rempel, Cynthia wrote:
>>
>>
>> I'm not really clear on what the argument here is about.  If we want
>> prepackaged software for MSYS/MinGW it would seem reasonable to explore the
>> minGW packaging software.
>>
>> One minGW packaging software I came across was the minGW-get for getting
>> the package, further research is needed to determine what packaging software
>> would be used to package for minGW-get.
>>
>
> This is a nice option and I like it. A suitable repo can be set up any where
> and provided as a community service. It does not need to be on the RTEMS
> servers.
>
>
>>
>> Although, when I replaced all instances of Autoconf-2.69 with
>> Autoconf-2.62 and replaced all instances of Automake-1.12.6 with 1.11.2
>> rtems bootstrapped okay on Ubuntu 12.10, without special auto-tools, perhaps
>> making that change in rtems.git would be worth exploring?
>>
>
> Good question.
>
It's not clear to me what rationale or testing goes into changing /
bumping the auto* tool versions. So I cannot say either what the
ramification for going backward would be.

> Chris