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Re: setup.ini, setup.hint, and update-setup
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: setup.ini, setup.hint, and update-setup
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 17:36:34 -0400
- References: <3BBA2FAA.7060805@ece.gatech.edu>
- Reply-To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 05:20:42PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>While setup.exe can handle multi-line "ldesc" entries in setup.ini, the
>update-setup script used to generate that file from the setup.hint's
>will not create the correct results if the hint file has a multi-line
>ldesc entry.
>
>Question:
>
>There are two ways to address this, that I can see:
> 1) fix update-setup to deal with multi-line entries
> 2) require that all entries fit on a single line -- but it can be
>very long...
>
>I'm all for #2. Comments?
I have a corollary question. Can setup.exe deal with multi-line
ldesc's? If not then we need to do some variation of 2.
>Oh, and one other thing: update-setup doesn't parse the "category" or
>"requires" entry from the hint file.
Right. I mentioned this a while ago and Robert submitted a patch for
this but, frankly, I am not really looking for update-setup patches.
I'm not going to guarantee that update-setup is around for the long haul.
That's one reason why it is not publicly available.
cgf