On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Peter Rehley wrote:

> On Nov 22, 2004, at 9:21 AM, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Peter Rehley wrote:
> >
> > > On Nov 20, 2004, at 10:19 AM, Reini Urban wrote:
> > >
> > > [snip]
> > > > ok thanks, for confirmation.
> > > > so cgf should repackage it. it's obviously a bug.
> > >
> > > I think so also because this isn't the behavior that occurs on linux
> > > or BSD.
> >
> > Umm, which behavior are you talking about?  The automatic conversion
> > of CRLF line endings to LF?  This is Cygwin-specific behavior, and has
> > nothing to do with Linux or BSD.  It's there to avoid complaints from
> > people who use, say, notepad on binary mounts to edit their .flex
> > files.
>
> I suspected as much.

So you probably suspect the answer to your repackaging suggestion as well:
it's not going to be repackaged.

> [snip]
> > > Modified build commands would be
> > > ./configure; make LDFLAGS="/usr/lib/automode.o"
> >
> > <PEDANTIC>
> > The above should really be
> >     ./configure; make LDLIBS="/usr/lib/automode.o"
> >                         ^^^^
> make LIBS="-lintl /usr/lib/automode.o".  There is no LDLIBS in the flex
> source, and when setting LIBS the -lintl is needed because the LIBS in the
> Makefile had that value.

It *is* LDLIBS.  See "make -pf/dev/null | grep -C2 '^%: %.o'".  BTW, this
is not Cygwin-specific.

> > It may not matter for linking in a .o file, but it certainly will matter if
> > a -l form is used (as you tried earlier).
> > </PEDANTIC>

HTH,
        Igor
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