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Charles Wilson wrote:
| The attached patch (+ two new files) enables cygport to build
| "relocatable" packages using the framework devised by Bruno Haible -- if
| the upstream source supports it.  Currently, only libiconv and gettext
| support this feature (coincidentally, the upstream maintainer of both
| packages is...Bruno Haible).

Forgive me for my ignorance on the topic, but what is gained through
enabling relocatibility?  FWIW, I don't see Gentoo[1][2] using it, for
example.  Do other distros use it?

[1]
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/gentoo-x86/sys-devel/gettext/gettext-0.15-r1.ebuild
[2]
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/gentoo-x86/dev-libs/libiconv/libiconv-1.11.ebuild


Yaakov
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