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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 17:20:46 -0400
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Robert Collins wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
> 
> >
> > I see the magic wrapper being nothing more than reading the
> configure.in
> > or configure.ac to get the AC_PREREQ value and creating the
> appropriate
> > symlinks to the correct versions before executing the tool.  BTW, I
> just
> > looked at the configure.in in newlib and the AC_PREREQ value is
> already
> > 2.5.
> 
> It may have started like that, but I believe it's a little smarter now
> .. It's under the GPL, why not grab the deb, run ar and have a look?
> 

I meant as far as one for Cygwin itself is concerned.

Earnie.

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