Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/08/15/22:56:39
Yes, I use it regularly to maintain software we use internally at my
company. I develop mostly on Win2k/cygwin & deploy to HP/UX.
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David Carter
david AT carter DOT net
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From: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
[mailto:cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 10:14 PM
To: cygwin AT Cygwin DOT Com
Subject: Re: Automake 1.4l released -- show of hands from
cygwin/automake maintainers?
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On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 08:28:05PM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> writes:
>
>Charles> Nope. It actually seems to be due to a change in automake.
>Charles> Apparently, make distcheck did not previously 'chmod -R a-w'.
>
>I looked a bit but due to massive reorganization it is a pain to find
>out when this went in.
>
>
>We rely on `cp -p' in a few places, all in `dist'. The problem is
>most obvious in `distcheck' because it makes the tree read-only when
>it is unpacked. But suppose you use something like CVSREAD and check
>out a tree. Then a file like configure could very well be read-only,
>leading to the same problem for a simple `dist'.
>
>I think we could add a check for whether "cp -p works in ." to
>AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE and then use the result everywhere. For this to work
>we'd also need to add code to `missing' to handle this case, I think
>(code I'm not entirely sure how to write -- ideally it would restore
>the original file's permissions once it was done with the copy).
>
>I think our goal should be to support this feature everywhere. But if
>there aren't maintainers who need this in 1.5, I would prefer to file
>a PR and leave it until a later release. If you are such a
>maintainer, please speak up. Charles, are you?
Can we get a show of hands for people who are actually trying to use
automake as a *maintainer* under cygwin.
I suspect that this is not a big deal and that there is no reason to
force automake people to waste time on Cygwin's irregularities for
this release.
If a bunch of people step forward, however, then, obviously I'm wrong.
Again.
So, is anyone using automake in this capacity? If you don't know what
I'm talking about then you undoubtedly are not using automake as
a maintainer.
cgf
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