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On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 08:40:18PM -0500, Raja R Harinath wrote: >Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> writes: >[snip] >>As you are not overly familiar with Cygwin, I'm not very familiar with >>automake. I know that autoconf bends over backwards to accomodate >>older OSes. > >Not really, in the sense you mean. 'autoconf' requires GNU m4 and perl >on the maintainer side -- not really bending over backwards. > >It is the generated 'configure' that bends over backwards to accomodate >older/non-traditional OSes. > >>I don't know what automake does. > >'automake' has a similar policy. The maintainer of a package needs a >reasonable system. The generated Makefile.in can be used on >older/non-traditiona OSes, as long as the user doesn't invoke any >maintainer rules. > >'make distcheck' is a maintainer rule, since it checks if the >distribution tarball generated is complete. Ok. I'm really really sorry that I even responded to this thread. I really should have done more homework before shooting off my mouth. I'll let everyone else hash this problem out. It doesn't sound like this is a show stopper for either automake or cygwin, anyway. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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