[mingw] updated tools

[Charles Wilson]

At one point there was some discussion about certain missing programs on 
mingw/msys:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=13069136
http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg02115.html

specifically, join and paste.  These programs are now available as an 
additional download for msys users:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.msys/3741/match=
   join, paste, file, mktemp

as well as an updated (1.4.7) version of m4:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.msys/3740/match=

In each case, these are meant to be used with the current (1.0.10) 
Msys/mingw development environment.  There is a full update to the msys 
environment in the works (1.0.11) which will include the complete 
coreutils (which, in turn, includes join/paste/fold/split) as part of 
its distribution -- but the 1.0.11 system is only in "snapshot" state 
right now.

So it seems to me that libtool could now begin assuming the presence of 
these tools (join/paste), just as it now assumes the presence of 
autoconf/automake/fold/split/...  This may require an additional 
download on the part of msys-1.0.10 users -- but once 1.0.11 is released 
not even that will be required.

--
Chuck