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Date:	Fri, 25 Aug 2000 10:10:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Where to find libintl?
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--- Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 08:20:16PM +0400, Egor Duda wrote:
> >
> >i've  always  wanted to familiarize myself with autoconf, and it seems
> >to be good occasion to start with :) so i'll try to look at it too.
>

Speaking of autoconf, Akim has a pre-release 2.49a for trial.  There have
already been bug reports.  I'm wondering if anyone has given the CVS autoconf a
try against Cygwin's configure.in files?
 
>
> I've chosen to tackle this as a build time problem rather than a configure
> time problem.  I'd rather have this "just work" when libintl and libbfd are
> available.
> 

Nice idea.

> I've tried to make all of the cygwin makefiles do the right thing when they
> require a library but I don't want to complicate them further by
> automatically
> building libbfd.a and libintl.a.
> 
> So, I added a warning in the Makefile.in when dumper's dependencies are
> not available.  Otherwise, it just builds dumper.exe.
> 

This would be similar to the [non-]building of the documentation when the
appropriate tools don't exist.  Do the warnings give sufficient information as
to where to find libbfd.a and libintl.a?

Cheers,

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