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Re: A minor patch to Makefile.in


Christopher Faylor wrote:

On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 12:04:19PM -0400, Nicholas Wourms wrote:

A better solution is to include "naked-intl" in the list of cvs modules for the "winsup" ampersand module, then when utils/Makefile.in evaluates "libintl:=${shell $(CC) -B$(bupdir2)/intl/ --print-file-name=libintl.a}", it will statically link dumper.exe to the libintl which *doesn't* depend on libiconv.

No, that's not a "better solution".  configure is what we use for situations
like this.  I don't want to have to start adding libraries to the cygwin
distribution just to work around the fact that configure isn't figuring
out what it needs to figure out.

Chris,

I stand corrected... As it turns out, my theory doesn't work anyway. So, I will have configure check for the existance of gettext > 10.40 and any dependancies on libiconv. I will work up a patch but I need to know if this will require a copyright assignment, as undoubtly it will entail more then 10 lines of configure script changes. So if this is the way you want to go, then let me know and I'll do so.

On another note, I really think having seperate configure files for every directory is a tad bit redundant. Are there any plans to migrate to Automake templates and/or a single configure script for the winsup tree?

Cheers,
Nicholas



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