Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/09/08/13:23:03
On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 11:57:39AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Ronald Landheer wrote:
>
>
>>Frankly, I don't know whether this is Cygwin-specific. If not, please
>>redirect this post (and me) to the proper list (of which I do not have
>>the E-mail address, so redirecting me would be giving me the proper
>>address). Thanx
>
>
>Well, many folks have been happily using Automake-1.5 on cygwin without
>libtool; it must be something about your .am files that is pulling in
>that dependency. I think this is an automake question primarily, and
>only secondarily a cygwin question. You'd probably be better off on the
>automake list (automake AT gnu DOT org).
>
>>
>>NB: I also find this new dependency tracking system very, very
>> annoying..
>
>First, the new dependency stuff in setup is new, and will doubtless need
>refining. Second, you're going to HAVE to be a little more specific.
>Also, your annoyance has to be balanced against (1) all those newbies
>who only install parts of cygwin (and get the wrong parts and neglect to
>install actual dependencies: gcc without binutils, etc), and (2)
>everybody else who is annoyed that OUR first response to people in (1)
>is "download and install the entire 300M distribution.
>
>We HAVE to have dependency tracking, but nobody claims that setup's
>implementation is perfect. Help us.
AFAIK, the dependency tracking stuff in setup hasn't been released. Was
Ronald referring to dependency tracking in automake, perchance?
If so, this is clearly the wrong forum for this type of complaint.
cgf
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