Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <031d01c0cde4$bfe18780$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> From: "Robert Collins" To: , References: <0056910011659348000002L182*@MHS> Subject: Re: Request to package maintainers Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:06:18 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Apr 2001 23:58:17.0478 (UTC) FILETIME=[99036260:01C0CDE3] >----- Original Message ----- >From: >To: >Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 9:42 AM >Subject: Request to package maintainers > >Hello. > >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. > >Thank you. > This is a _very_ bad idea. config.cache is not portable across machines unless they are _identical_ in layout. And if you are building from source you may well have a different location for various items. config.status is less of an issue - but where would you put it ? (The source dir is not the build dir for packagers ). If all you want is the configure switches used, then I suggest just asking for that. :] A second thing to consider: if you are building from source it implies that you don't want the packagers options... Rob -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple