On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 07:49:30PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
... > >3) In addition, it is possible to have a wrapper for automake with our > >setup. Gentoo has a similar setup, and uses this: > > > >http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/sys-devel/automake-wrapper/files/am-wrapper-1.sh?content-type=text%2Fplain ... > #3 cui bono? The only advantage of a wrapper system, as opposed to the > status quo, is that you don't need to set the current alternative > manually to match the desired version, when using autoreconf or a > bootstrap/autogen.sh script. When using enable-maintainer-rules, even > under the current system you don't need to worry because the proper > version of automake is called explicitly. > > But wrappers are sometimes wrong, so you need to manually set > WANT_AM_FOO. When you get right down to it, what's the diff between > that and update-alternatives? Perhaps a silly question, but maybe one of the alternatives could be a wrapper? Best of both worlds, no? /p -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
