Consider install autoconf package auto when installing msys2

• Some haskell packages, like the infamous network, uses autoconf to generate the sh script used in the configure step by cabal/stack
• So to build those packages from source you need to have it installed
• It is a lightweight package so maybe ghcup should install it by default

Usually, autoconf is not needed for the network package if you download it from hackage. The sdist has the configure script already installed. The reason we skipped this was: #151 (closed)

So this was on purpose. Maybe we can add it back. How many dependencies does autotools pull in?

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Usually, autoconf is not needed for the network package if you download it from hackage

yeah, you only need it if you pull the source code directly from git. So it would be needed only for advanced users developing such packages

Maybe we can add it back. How many dependencies does autotools pull in?

Sorry for the confusion, it seems installing autoconf is enough and it is quite lightweight:

# pacman -S autoconf
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (3) diffutils-3.7-1  m4-1.4.19-1  autoconf-2.71-1

Total Download Size:   1.20 MiB
Total Installed Size:  3.98 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y
:: Retrieving packages...
 diffutils-3.7-1-...   342.0 KiB   259 KiB/s 00:01 [#####################] 100%
 m4-1.4.19-1-x86_64    239.4 KiB   172 KiB/s 00:01 [#####################] 100%
 autoconf-2.71-1-any   643.7 KiB   430 KiB/s 00:01 [#####################] 100%
 Total (3/3)          1225.1 KiB   632 KiB/s 00:02 [#####################] 100%
(3/3) checking keys in keyring                     [#####################] 100%
(3/3) checking package integrity                   [#####################] 100%
(3/3) loading package files                        [#####################] 100%
(3/3) checking for file conflicts                  [#####################] 100%
(3/3) checking available disk space                [#####################] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/3) installing m4                                [#####################] 100%
(2/3) installing diffutils                         [#####################] 100%
(3/3) installing autoconf                          [#####################] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/1) Updating the info directory file...

changed title from Consider install autotools package auto when installing msys2 to Consider install autoconf package auto when installing msys2

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