why is automake not installed by default?

Jan-Oliver Wagner jan@intevation.de
Tue Jan 9 08:05:00 GMT 2001


On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 04:49:08PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > I just wonder why automake is not installed by default
> > with the cygnus setup routine?
> 
> It requires perl for running which wasn't in the base distro yet.
> I will add automake when perl isn't marked as test version.

thanks Corinna. Do you have an estimate on when this might happen?

For the others: thanks also, but I am currently too much involved
in other Free Software projects to start diving into cygwin :-(

Cheers

	Jan

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