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Re: Problems with updating nearly any package meant for Cygwin or using packages such as libtool
- From: Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at gmail dot com>
- To: "The Are-They-Trolling-Us? And Vulgar Cygwin-Talk Maiming List" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:50:39 +0000
- Subject: Re: Problems with updating nearly any package meant for Cygwin or using packages such as libtool
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On 17/11/2011 20:38, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 17/11/2011 20:33, Dave Korn wrote:
>> On 17/11/2011 13:00, marco atzeri wrote:
>>> These are upstream bugs in configure, looking for the lib
>>> is wrong as different platforms have different conventions.
>>> They should only look for the header.
>> Well, they could look for the lib too, as long as they used the correct
>> autoconf macro (AC_CHECK_LIB or AC_SEARCH_LIB) to do so.
>
>
> Whoops, no they can't. The hydra configure script isn't from autconf at
> all; it's just hand-written.
Good grief. It also has a Makefile.am and a Makefile.in, but it doesn't use
automake, and their contents are unrelated. It just cats them together into
the final makefile!
cheers,
DaveK