autoconf

[Ken Brown]

On 12/2/2021 5:15 AM, Jan Nijtmans via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> Somewhere in cygport, a check is done for the autoconf version, please
> change this check to allow autoconf 2.71 (as well as 2.59 and 2.69).
> Then I can put back the "cygautoreconf" line in tcl.cygport.

You can do this locally until someone gets around to patching cygport.  Just 
patch /usr/share/cygclass/autotools.cygclass like this:

--- autotools.cygclass~ 2020-05-10 12:06:42.000000000 -0400
+++ autotools.cygclass  2021-12-02 08:14:34.546334100 -0500
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@
                 WANT_AUTOCONF=2.5

                 case $(autoconf --version 2> /dev/null | head -n 1) in
-                       autoconf*2.[56]?) ;;
+                       autoconf*2.[567]?) ;;
                         *)      error "autoconf2.5 is required to build this 
package" ;;
                 esac


Ken