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Subject:	RE: libgetopt++ and setup and libstdc++
Date:	Sun, 28 Apr 2002 10:00:55 +1000
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From:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To:	"Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>, <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu] 
> Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 8:09 AM
> To: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: libgetopt++ and setup and libstdc++
> 
> 
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 04:38:48AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> > 
> >>As usual, nothing is fixed in stone, and if this is a significant 
> >>issue, it can be revisited.
> >>
> > 
> > I have to agree with Earnie here.  AFAIK, every other toolchain on 
> > sources.redhat.com stores the autogenerated files in CVS.
> 
> Mebbe so.  But it's not unusual for projects to require folks 
> who want 
> to get the source from CVS to have/use the autotools to bootstrap.  I 
> mean, getting the "latest source from CVS" is really 
> developerish sort 
> of thing to do...

Exactly! And if someone has made such trivial changes that they wouldn't
need to have the autotools, I'll accept a patch against an older file
version from a distribution quite happily.

Rob

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