Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com X-Authentication-Warning: han.cs.umn.edu: harinath set sender to harinath@cs.umn.edu using -f To: cygwin@Cygwin.Com Cc: automake@gnu.org, Bernard Dautrevaux , tim.van.holder@pandora.be Subject: Re: Automake 1.4l released References: <3B7974C6.83934084@yahoo.com> <3B797B22.C06C71D9@yahoo.com> <87bslip7hj.fsf@creche.redhat.com> <20010814195923.A28367@redhat.com> <87wv46uoac.fsf@creche.redhat.com> <20010814211617.C8849@redhat.com> From: Raja R Harinath Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 20:40:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20010814211617.C8849@redhat.com> (Christopher Faylor's message of "Tue, 14 Aug 2001 21:16:17 -0400") Message-ID: Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.104 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Christopher Faylor writes: [snip] > As you are not overly familiar with Cygwin, I'm not very familiar with > automake. I know that autoconf bends over backwards to accomodate older > OSes. Not really, in the sense you mean. 'autoconf' requires GNU m4 and perl on the maintainer side -- not really bending over backwards. It is the generated 'configure' that bends over backwards to accomodate older/non-traditional OSes. > I don't know what automake does. 'automake' has a similar policy. The maintainer of a package needs a reasonable system. The generated Makefile.in can be used on older/non-traditiona OSes, as long as the user doesn't invoke any maintainer rules. 'make distcheck' is a maintainer rule, since it checks if the distribution tarball generated is complete. - hari -- Raja R Harinath ------------------------------ harinath@cs.umn.edu "When all else fails, read the instructions." -- Cahn's Axiom "Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing." -- Roy L Ash -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/