Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 09:14:54 -0700 From: Dario Alcocer To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: New package: rpm-4.1-1 Message-ID: <20030508091454.B13275@ns.helixdigital.com> References: <20030506161952 DOT A30179 AT ns DOT helixdigital DOT com> <3EB9F82B DOT 5000605 AT linuxforum DOT net> <20030507235738 DOT C24620 AT ns DOT helixdigital DOT com> <20030508144352 DOT GA28962 AT redhat DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030508144352.GA28962@redhat.com>; from cgf@redhat.com on Thu, May 08, 2003 at 10:43:52AM -0400 On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 10:43:52AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 11:57:38PM -0700, Dario Alcocer wrote: > >On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 02:24:43PM +0800, David Huang wrote: > > > >> I have installed rpm, rpm-build and rpm-doc from net releases, but > >> I can't find /usr/include/rpm*.h and /usr/lib/lib*. Dose it miss a > >> package rpm-devel? And looks like librpm, librpmbuild, librpmio and > >> librpmdb were built in static lib format, why not buld them in DLL > >> format? The .exe files are too big. > > > >Yes, you're correct; I've put off an rpm-devel package until I can build > >shared library versions of the RPM libraries, and that should happen in > >the next few weeks, although I can't promise anything. > > If we're missing header files are we still GPL compliant or isn't RPM GPLed? Yes, I believe so, because I've not released the development shared libraries; since I'm not distributing these particular binaries from the package, we should be OK (I guess, IANAL.) Anyway, the original rpm-4.1 tarball is in the Cygwin source package, so if anyone else *really* wants them, they're available. -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. alcocer AT helixdigital DOT com -- http://www.helixdigital.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/