Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 20:07:20 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Request to package maintainers Message-ID: <20010425200720.A1759@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <0056910011659348000002L182*@MHS> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <0056910011659348000002L182*@MHS>; from steve.snyder@philips.com on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 06:42:00PM -0500 On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 06:42:00PM -0500, steve.snyder@philips.com wrote: >I would like to make a request of Cygwin's package maintainers: please >leave the generated config.cache file in the source package. > >I suggest this to aid in rebuilding from source packages. As it is, >those who want to rebuild there own binaries have no idea what config >options were used in the standard cygwin build. The user who wants to >rebuild the source with config option A may be losing the options X, Y >and Z used in the original cygwin build. 1) The config.cache is not in the same directory as the sources and may not be appropriate for other machines. If it was, then we really wouldn't need configure at all. 2) I don't use any strange options besides setting the various exec-prefix, etc., options. The options that are used have been posted here many times. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple