cygport: build apps with an older version of autoreconf

[Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty]

On 27/09/2022 16:59, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 27/09/2022 16:33, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> While trying to get the latest version of wxWidgets 3.0.x to build, I 
>> found that I need to use an older version of autoreconf, as the 
>> format seems to have changed in a slightly incompatible way.
>>
>> The "cygautoreconf" command seems to always use the latest version of 
>> autoreconf, and refuses to run if the latest version of autoreconf 
>> isn't installed.
>>
>> Eventually I realised that I can just skip this step for this 
>> particular package, but is there a way to use an older version of 
>> autoreconf with the "cygautoreconf" command?
>
> I think this is controlled with the WANT_AUTOCONF variable?
>
> [1] https://cygwin.github.io/cygport/autotools_cygclass.html#robo803

Looks like it. My bad for not checking the manual more carefully.

Hamish