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From: "Ronald Landheer" <info@rlsystems.net>
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Subject: Automake 1.5
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 14:59:50 +0200
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Hello all,

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

Recently, I have re-installed and updated Cygwin (the update part is 
done every Sunday) and have installed Automake 1.5 in the process.

Today, I found that automake apparently depends on Libtool when building 
my Eleanor project - libtool is a tool I do know but do not use by 
choice. Eleanor consists of a software development kit for a PBEM game 
(VGA Planets) and a general tool/replacement library (Swing), and as 
such has four libraries in it. It would seem obvious to use Libtool for 
this, but as I said, I don't want to.

Thus, Automake 1.5 broke my bootstrap script and does not allow me to compile Eleanor without problems any more. My questions are:
  a. Is this normal behaviour for Automake 1.5?
     i.e. is it normal for Automake to want to use Libtool, even if I 
     don't?
  b. How do I get rid of this, w/o downgrading to the previous version 
     of Automake (which I just did, to be able to build Eleanor and 
     thus, one of the programs that depends on this project)

Like I said, if this is not Cygwin-specific, please redirect me and this 
message to the proper place.

Have a very, very nice day!

Ronald

NB: I also find this new dependency tracking system very, very 
    annoying..


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