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RE: List of package owners


Sure. I'm interested.
I already downloaded the package from CVS.


-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com
[mailto:cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Charles Wilson
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 7:28 PM
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: List of package owners


Gareth Pearce wrote:

>>There are a few packages that lack owners.  The most notable may
>>be m4.  Chuck and I exchanged some private email about this last
>>week.  Anyone up for maintaining m4?
>>
>
>
> Hmm despite the apparent lack of upstream development on this one - m4 is
> pretty rock solid (compared to astyle at least) ... I'll have a deeper
look
> to see if I'm willing to offer on this one.

Well, actually Gary V. Vaughan has been working hard on m4 all summer.
If you grab CVS

cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/m4 login anonymous
<hit enter for password>
cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/m4 co m4

you'll see that the whole thing has been modularized with plugins.  I
sent Gary some patches last week and he incorporated them, but there are
still a number of issues with building it cleanly on cygwin.

Most of these are probably not m4's fault, but are shortcomings in the
libtool (or libltdl) implementation on cygwin.  I haven't tried to
rebuild in about a week, so things may have changed in the meantime.

If anyone is interested, I can post my build recipe and notes...

--
Chuck





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