[imapfilter-devel] Patch for cygwin

[Gautam Gopalakrishnan]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 02:39:11AM +0300, Lefteris Chatzibarbas wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 06:46:22AM +1000, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote:
> > 
> > But it would require people to know the build variables. I'd
> > rather not have it like this, but I shall leave it to you.
> 
> Yes, I know.
> 
> I'm thinking of getting rid of the config Bourne shell script, because this
> test and many others are required in order to build without user intervention
> in some systems.  I will then reside only to a well commented Makefile and
> INSTALL file with details for each system (BSD, Linux, Solaris, Cygwin,
> etc.)...
> 
> Also, I don't like GNU autoconf (I wonder how would it deal with Debian's
> change of name of the Lua 5.0 library from "liblua" to "liblua50"?), so I'm not
> considering it as an alternative. 

I disagree. Having different makefiles per system or asking users to
muck around is something I would not want to do. Using uname is easier
and helps in unattended installs. Autoconf is a pain though, but your
script is good enough. Why change it?

Cheers
Gautam