On 2004-09-07T13:15-0700, Brandon J. Van Every wrote: ) works ok on UNIX because the tools are getting built, tested, and ) updated all the time. That testing never happens on Windows, so to ) quote Chinua Achebe, "Things Fall Apart." If there is a specific issue with a specific Cygwin package, please either bring it up with the package maintainer or bring it up on one of the two Cygwin mailing lists where this would be relevant (cygwin@ or cygwin-apps@xxxxxxxxxx). As a data point, much of the core Cygwin "kernel" work *is* done on Linux and is assembled through cross-compilation. However, individual packages are maintained by independent contributors, and these maintainers do use the software they package on a daily basis. (And, by necessity, also use the Cygwin kernel on a daily basis.) Before a package can be added to Cygwin, it must be voted on by existing package maintainers, and must be reviewed for correct packaging and functionality. Additionally, one of the requirements for being a Cygwin package maintainer is the following of the cygwin-apps@ mailing list, and its discussions that are relevant your packages. If you have any specific problems with Cygwin development tools, please bring them up on the cygwin@ mailing list. If you have any specific problems with Cygwin's packaging, please bring them up on the cygwin-apps@xxxxxxxxxx mailing list. Cygwin almost certainly is the correct long-term answer to your problem. Modifying the autotools to support non-UNIX-like environments, where standard tools like awk, cut, and sed may not be available, would be work outside of the autotools' scope. Either the functionality of these core components would need to be duplicated, or these components would need to be made available in the non-UNIX-like environment. The former duplicates the effort used to write the tools and standardize their use; the latter duplicates the work put into systems like Cygwin. -- Daniel Reed <n@xxxxxx> http://people.redhat.com/djr/ http://naim.n.ml.org/ The open source world considers many of its large projects as benevolent dictatorships. It's a democracy only in the sense that cyberspace is infinite so anyone who doesn't like it can move out. -- Alan Cox _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
