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Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 11:57:39 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Ronald Landheer <info AT rlsystems DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Automake 1.5
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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.

--Chuck


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