Mail Archives: cygwin-apps/2002/04/13/03:31:29
AFAIK, setup doesn't handle "buildRequires". What I've been doing is to
only list runtime dependencies for the binary package in the Requires:
line, and then just mention the buildtime requirements in the readme.
e.g. you don't list gcc/binutils in the Requires: line of every package.
--Chuck
Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
>>Are you kidding? Cygwin-Man is the COOLEST!
>>
>
> And would make a great mascot!
>
>
>>Truth, Justice, and the American Way, my friend. Truth, Justice, and the
>>American Way.
>>
>
> Just think of it this way: instead of just some 'man' now we've got a
> 'doc'. Hmmm... I wonder if people are going to think this is a Cygwin
> version of DrWatson.
>
> OK, my last question was pretty obvious, but how about this one:
> The -src package here contains perl scripts. Is there any way to have
> (just) it 'depend' on perl? Or at least warn people beforehand that
> they'll need perl to remake the man pages?
>
> setup.hint:
>
> sdesc: "Cygwin-specific man-pages for utilities and functions"
> ldesc: "The intro.1 and intro.3 man pages for Cygwin. Also includes
> autogenerated, man-formatted versions of the cygwin documentation
> available online at
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html
> and
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/cygwin-api.html"
> category: Doc
> requires: cygwin man
>
> http://ns1.iocc.com/~joshua/cygwin/cygwin-doc-1.0-1.tar.bz2
> http://ns1.iocc.com/~joshua/cygwin/cygwin-doc-1.0-1-src.tar.bz2
>
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