Problems with updating nearly any package meant for Cygwin or using packages such as libtool

[Charles Wilson]

On 11/17/2011 4:07 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> It always makes me
> cringe to see other projects that just don't get that fact, suffering
> through the problems already solved by autotools.

To borrow from Santayana, those who don't understand cross-platform 
portability are doomed to reinvent the autotools...badly.

Granted, everybody agrees that the autotools could be improved -- but 
getting any replacement system up to the level of capability already 
exhibited by the auto*...and attracting a user/developer base to 
use/reportbugs/fixbugs/addcapability before you've reached that point? 
Not happening.

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Chuck