Mailing-List: contact cygwin-developers-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-developers-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 16:03:04 -0500 Message-Id: <200001262103.QAA22652@envy.delorie.com> From: DJ Delorie To: cgf AT cygnus DOT com CC: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com, cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com In-reply-to: <20000126154352.A5426@cygnus.com> (message from Chris Faylor on Wed, 26 Jan 2000 15:43:52 -0500) Subject: Re: next net release preliminary info References: <20000126162956 DOT 4192 DOT qmail AT web111 DOT yahoomail DOT com> <200001262027 DOT PAA06771 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <20000126154352 DOT A5426 AT cygnus DOT com> > Hmm. When I hear dependencies, I think Makefile. The problem I was thinking about was "build from source, oops wrong version of readline, build fails." > How about a "make install" for the binary packages? Why? Untarring them installs them into the right spot already. I don't think there are any real binary dependencies, just source dependencies. If we supported shared libraries, that would be a different story, but everything is statically linked (except the tcl/tk stuff, but gdb works without it anyway, with --nw).