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Re: Recent cygport and cygwin-specific READMEs [Was: Re: GCC-4.7.2-2: Go/No-go?]


On Apr 13 06:55, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 11 April 2013 23:37, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> > On 2013-04-11 07:37, Charles Wilson wrote:
> >> #2) Is it possible to use the auto-setup.hint-generator functionality
> >> for multi-part package sets (e.g. which contain multiple separate
> >> tarballs, in addition to -src and -debuginfo)? If so, how?
> >
> >
> > Yes; it just works, and also handles inter-subpackage dependencies (e.g.
> > apps in foo will dep libfooX, and implibs in libfoo-devel will dep the
> > corresponding DLL in libfooX).  Just define CATEGORY/SUMMARY/DESCRIPTION
> > (there are also subpackage-specific variants of these) and omit the hint
> > files from $C; at the end of the package stage, cygport will show you the
> > dependencies it computes for each package so you can check them.
> 
> I'm struggling to get setup.hint generation to work. Is it supported
> with cygport 0.11.3 as currently in the distros? Below is the
> mintty.cygport I've got. Do I need to do anything else to trigger it?
> 
> Cygport prints ">>> mintty requires:" at the end, which is correct as
> it doesn't require anything beyond the Cygwin DLL, but there's no
> setup.hint.

Sure?  Did you look into the "dist" subdir in your builddir after
the install stage?  It should contain a complete mintty dir for
upload.


Corinna

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