Update included popt to version 1.7

jw schultz jw at pegasys.ws
Thu May 15 18:35:44 EST 2003


On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:29:14AM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote:
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> Paul Slootman wrote:
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> >    checking for poptGetContext in -lpopt... yes
> >    checking whether to use included libpopt... no
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> >So dropping it from the rsync source tree might not be a bad thing.
> >
> Same here, on cygwin:
> 
> 2.5.6 release:
> checking for poptGetContext in -lpopt... yes
> checking whether to use included libpopt... no
> 
> latest "cyberone" no build.samba.org:
> checking for poptGetContext in -lpopt... yes
> checking whether to use included libpopt... no
> 
> Moreover at least 3 cygwin packages use popt so "it does have a sense" to
> have an indipendent popt.
> (I also use it for a couple of projects, I love popt ^_^)

OK.  With that widespread a usage it cannot not be in the
major dists and is confirmed to be in cygwin.  Lets drop
popt source.  One less bit of foreign code to keep in sync
and port patches for.

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