Eric - Why are you trying to package Wget for cygwin when there is a *native* win32 exe? Seems like a whole *lot* of work for something that really doesn't gain you anything.
I'm quite interested in your response. Chris Christopher G. Lewis http://www.ChristopherLewis.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Blake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 7:52 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: GNU Coding Standard compliance > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm trying to package wget-1.11.3 for cygwin. But you have > several GNU > Coding Standard compliance problems that is making this task more > difficult than it should be. GCS requires that your > testsuite be run by > 'make check', but yours is a no-op. Instead, you provide > 'make test', > but that fails to compile if you use a VPATH build. And even > when using > an in-tree build, it fails as follows: > > ./Test-proxied-https-auth.px && echo && echo > /bin/sh: ./Test-proxied-https-auth.px: No such file or directory > > After commenting that line out, the following tests are also missing: > > ./Test-proxy-auth-basic.px > ./Test-N-current-HTTP-CD.px > > Test-N-HTTP-Content-Disposition.px fails, since it didn't add the > - --content-disposition flag to the wget invocation. > > Several Test--spider-* tests fail, because an expected error > code of 256 > is impossible (exit status is truncated to 8 bits). > > Also, your hand-rolled Makefile.in don't support > --datarootdir. I'm not > sure whether you are interested in migrating to using Automake, which > would solve a number of these issues; let me know if you would be > interested in such a patch. > > - -- > Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! > > Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) > Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkhGkA0ACgkQ84KuGfSFAYAyvgCffHFFioWeTT+8sTn8O6YzdfM1 > y7MAn12XTpxo1PiMtIwALxm1KrqsKROS > =xKOZ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
