Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 10:05:22 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: Prashant TR cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Sh-utils 2.0j sources uploaded In-Reply-To: <200008130519.KAA02729@midpec.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Prashant TR wrote: > In any case, I think that the DJGPP source distribution should > come with the files under `tests/' already edited and converted > to the DOS-style CRLF EOL format (where appropriate). (If you > decide to accept this advice, you need to take into consideration > that someone might run config.bat again, so the conversion Sed > scripts should be prepared for multiple editing.) > > Yes, it actually does. It checks for *.orig files and always runs > "sed" on them. The only problem here is that the *.orig will have to > be distributed which increase the package size a bit. I don't see this as a problem, since the files are small. > 5) A note: since `true' and `false' are now programs, you need to > make sure shl20b.dsm includes commands to uninstall the old shell > scripts by those names before installing the binaries. > > Ok, but what do I need to do for this one? In other words, what are > the lines to be added in the DSM? Here's an example (from the Groff 1.16 distribution): builtin-pre-install-script: command:\ rm -rf /dev/env/DJDIR/share/groff > 6) Finally, it looks like the DJGPP source distribution will require > to run the configure script before building. If that is true, > I'd like to suggest to make any reasonable effort so that the > sources could come already configured. AFAIK, every other ported > package does that; we should try not to require users to have all > those additional utilities installed just to rebuild a package. > > I uploaded a configured package last time, without any problems. It's > in v2gnu/beta/shl20is.zip. Okay, then I was simply mistaken in drawing conclusions. Sorry.