From: Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@gmail.com>
To: "The Are-They-Trolling-Us? And Vulgar Cygwin-Talk Maiming List"
<cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Problems with updating nearly any package meant for Cygwin or using packages such as libtool
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:51:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EC5739F.3000600@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EC570BC.2010202@gmail.com>
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
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2011-11-17 20:51 ` Dave Korn [this message]
2011-11-17 21:07 ` Eric Blake
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2011-11-17 22:34 ` JonY
2011-11-17 23:46 ` Charles Wilson
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