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>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Davis <pdavis@pageflexinc.com> writes:

    Peter> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> wrote in message
    Peter> news:87r8g37rz3.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp...

    >> Moral: if a package provides a Makefile, _always_ use it to
    >> build the package.

    Peter> Unless you're on Windows, where the makefiles may not work,
    Peter> and need to be simulated by hand.

AFAIK GNU Make is one of the Cygwin utilities that invariably works as
advertised (unlike FTP :-( ).

FWIW.


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