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From:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To:	"John Wiersba" <John DOT Wiersba AT medstat DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: "shouted down", "shot down", apologies
Date:	Thu, 28 Jun 2001 08:58:04 +1000
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Wiersba" <John DOT Wiersba AT medstat DOT com>
> Well, what I'd like to do, and what should be standard for any package
> accepted into the cygwin archive (available to be downloaded with
> setup.exe), is that each package source tarball should build
out-of-the-box
> under cygwin with a simple make configure; make; make test (check?); make
> install, including the most recent "stable" cygwin source tarball.  With a

For everything but cygwin1.dll, that _should_ work. Us maintainers put
pre-patched source (if cygwin patches are needed) into the src tarball. Have
you tried? If you've tried and a package didn't work, report a bug to the
maintainer - they will take it seriously. If you're asking a hyopthetical
"have the cygwin package maintainers done the obvious thing" then I think
you're wasting my time.

Some packages such as cygwin1.dll and gcc _WILL NOT_ build in the same
directory as the source. For them you need
mkdir pkgdir
cd pkgdir
tar xzf /path/to/tarball
mkdir obj
cd obj
../extractedpackagesrc/configure
make

Hope that answers the question.

Rob


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