RE: [ITA] doxygen-1.5.5-1

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

Max Bowsher wrote on 02 May 2008 02:45:

> Warren Young wrote:
>> Dave Korn wrote:
>>> requires: cygwin libpng12
>>> 
>>>   The requires: line looks wrong to me....Why libpng?
>> 
>> Ask Max. :)
> 
> Last time I looked there was a copy of libpng embedded in the doxygen
> source tree. Building another copy seemed rather dumb when it's in the
> distro as a shared library already, so I made it use the distro version.
> 
> Quite what it actually uses it for, I'm not sure.
> 
> Max.

  ??? Confused now ???  http://cygwin.com/setup.html isn't explicit about
this, but are we /supposed/ to add dependencies for the source packages to the
requires line?  And if libpng, why not make, gcc, autoconf, automake, bash
....  etc?


    cheers,
      DaveK
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