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 Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 21:48:44 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@Cygwin.Com Cc: automake@gnu.org Subject: Re: Automake 1.4l released Message-ID: <20010814214844.B9297@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@Cygwin.Com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@Cygwin.Com, automake@gnu.org 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: ; from harinath@cs.umn.edu on Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 08:40:18PM -0500 On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 08:40:18PM -0500, Raja R Harinath wrote: >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. Ok. I'm really really sorry that I even responded to this thread. I really should have done more homework before shooting off my mouth. I'll let everyone else hash this problem out. It doesn't sound like this is a show stopper for either automake or cygwin, anyway. cgf -- 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/