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On 03/01/2010 00:53, Neil DOT Mowbray AT calgacus DOT com wrote:
> Okay, so I get the general idea.  First you get the cygwin-src package.
> Unpack it and
> run cygport on the coreutils-7.0-2.cygport file with download option.

If you are rebuilding an existing source package, you don't need to 
download it again, the sources are already there.

> This downloads the original gnu package and applies the two patch files.
> coreutils-7.0-2.src.patch and coreutils-7.0-2.cygwin.patch.
 > I assume the second patch is for cygwin specific files that
> aren't present in the orginal gnu package -- is this correct?

Correct.  There may be other patches as well, if PATCH_URI is defined.


Yaakov

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