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RE: libgetopt++ and setup and libstdc++
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>,<cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 10:00:55 +1000
- Subject: RE: libgetopt++ and setup and libstdc++
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson@ece.gatech.edu]
> Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 8:09 AM
> To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: libgetopt++ and setup and libstdc++
>
>
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 04:38:48AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> >
> >>As usual, nothing is fixed in stone, and if this is a significant
> >>issue, it can be revisited.
> >>
> >
> > I have to agree with Earnie here. AFAIK, every other toolchain on
> > sources.redhat.com stores the autogenerated files in CVS.
>
> Mebbe so. But it's not unusual for projects to require folks
> who want
> to get the source from CVS to have/use the autotools to bootstrap. I
> mean, getting the "latest source from CVS" is really
> developerish sort
> of thing to do...
Exactly! And if someone has made such trivial changes that they wouldn't
need to have the autotools, I'll accept a patch against an older file
version from a distribution quite happily.
Rob