Re: How to obtain a patch for viewing

[Volker Quetschke <quetschke at scytek dot de>]

Hi!
>> In case this wasn't clear enough, there is a "Src?" box behind most
>> cygwin packages when you use setup.exe, if you check that you will find
>> the source package and patches in /usr/src/.
> 
> Thanks I was not aware of that or
> 
>> In general you find information regarding building a cygwin package in
>>   /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/<package>.README
> 
> of this.
> 
> However, if the patch is the one you previously mentioned by you :
>  http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00024.html
> 
> I have serious concerns about patching the "perl" library package
> files in order to get ImageMagick's PerlMagick to compile.  There
> should be a way to get PerlMagick to compile by only patching some
> part of the ImagicMagick distribution.
It's not done that way. There was a real error in one ImageMagick's
makefiles that changed the order of link flags.

> I believe this is what Yaakov was also trying to say in his posting of
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00041.html
> 
> Any changes to perl (maybe there aren't many but..) could cause
> problems in the future.
That's why it was solved differently.

Hint: We also had some discussion on cygwin-apps. See thread
around  <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2006-11/msg00016.html> but
be also aware that Yakkov's patch was not enough, there was also
a dependency missing in PerlMagick/Makefile.am and the *.cygport
file had to be slightly amended. The current package builds without
special (external) changes.

  Volker


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