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Date:	Sun, 11 Aug 2013 19:51:20 +0200
From:	marco atzeri <marco DOT atzeri AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: hassles with cygport
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Il 8/11/2013 7:13 PM, Thomas Wolff ha scritto:
> I tried to migrate a package to using cygport. As I had announced before,
> I'm using this occasion to report some of the trouble I've experienced
> with it,
> listing this case as a kind of "log" of my porting attempt (which
> finally failed).
> While probably most of the single problems might appear to be small and
> easily solvable, the mere amount of issues and peculiarities is what
> makes cygport a rather cumbersome tool for me.
>
>
> rename old cygport file to new version
> ⇒ why is this needed? couldn't it be version-agnostic?
>
> edit cygport file to change version number of patch file, plus
> rename patch file to new version
> ⇒ bothersome
>
> with SRC_URI="http://.../${P}.tar.gz" trying
> cygport ... almostall
> ⇒ *** ERROR: Cannot find source package ...
>
> now archive already downloaded, so cygport [almost]all not desired
> ⇒ look up sequence of commands (prep, compile, install, package) I
> couldn't remember
>
> cygport ... prep
> ⇒ likely, the patch fails, of course, because sources have changed,
> so why is there not a step "unpack" after which I would check the patch?
>
> trying to adapt patch
> ⇒ searching for patched files first, somewhere among a bunch of
> directories;
> "origsrc" good guess, but tried "src" first anyway
> ⇒ bothersome
>
> trying to remember correct tuning of diff to produce patch;
> adapted patch
> ⇒ have to unpack again, with cygport ... prep
> ⇒ redundant, but well
>
> need to add a parameter to the package configure script
> ⇒ trying to find out how to achieve this:
> after some googling etc, running cygstart
> /usr/share/doc/cygport/manual.html
> found WAF_CONFIGURE_FLAGS for "additional arguments to pass to 'waf
> configure'"
> ⇒ what is waf??? not likely to lead to success
> found R_CONFIGURE_ARGS for "flag(s) to be passed to the configure script
> used by module packages containing native code"
> ⇒ sounds somewhat better, but what the waf are "module packages
> containing native code"?
> ⇒ thinking again, not likely to succeed
> found src_compile, looks more likely to be useful
> ⇒ however, its description is somewhat "nested", so where would I insert
> specific parameters or commands?
> it basically appears to call cygmake (which is obviously an internal
> cygport thing),
> also another cygport file lists:
> src_compile() {
>    lndirs
>    cd ${B}
>    cygmake
> }
> but cygmake is described "Calls 'make'", so where is configure invoked??
> ⇒ giving up, ignoring this detail for now
>
> repeat cygport ... prep
> cygport ... compile
> getting message
> which: no autopoint in ($PATH)
> cygport hangs
> ⇒ giving up
>
> running configure and make manually
>
> trying to take up cygport sequence:
> cygport ... install
> getting message
> make: *** Keine Regel, um »install« zu erstellen.  Schluss.
> *** ERROR: make install DESTDIR failed
> ⇒ what is this? should I provide a DESTDIR? the manual says:
> install into a DESTDIR, and run post-installation steps
> this is quite unclear, what is "a DESTDIR"? something I need to provide
> or cygport would pick?
> if I provide it myself, how would the subsequent step "cygport ... package"
> know which DESTDIR I used? I could provide it again, but this is not
> mentioned in the manual
> ⇒ very obscure
>
> attempt: mkdir inst; DESTDIR=inst cygport ... install
> ⇒ fails, same error
>
> ––––––
> Thomas
>

could you share the trial so we can provide suggestion ?

Regards
Marco



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