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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>,
   "Jan Nieuwenhuizen" <janneke AT gnu DOT org>
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Subject: Re: broken setup.hint files
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 09:25:57 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
>
> Ummm...they are not broken.  You just dislike some stylistic
choices...
>
> colons are optional, setup.hint doesn't NEED to have them.

They are deprecated however since
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2001-11/msg00438.html.
There's no need hurry to existing seutp.hints though.

Rob