I have uploaded your package as you suggested at
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/cygwin/. Simon PJ is going to look at
modifying the Building Guide. Thanks!
Cheers,
Simon
On 15 May 2005 19:46, Claus Reinke wrote:
> as those of you working on windows know, cygwin's setup.exe,
> while nice, only installs packages in the Base category by default
> when you're starting from scratch, and that is insufficient for
> building cvs ghc (in fact it doesn't even include cvs). so I've
> been wondering whether one could have "cygwin profiles", to
> tell setup.exe to install everything needed for building cvs ghc,
> or everything I tend to have on a laptop.
>
> it turns out that there is such a possibility, by using setup.exe's
> dependency checking and distributed package servers.
> essentially, you provide an empty cygwin package, but give it
> a list of required packages that corresponds to your desired
> "profile". if you select such a pseudo-package, hosted on your
> own package server, setup.exe will download/install those
> dependencies in addition to the packages in Base (you can
> see whether that will work by selecting the 'partial' view in
> setup.exe, showing only the packages that will be installed/
> modified).
>
> I've just tried that approach on a new machine, installing only
> the default and a 'ghc-depends' package (+ its dependencies),
> and have arrived at a version that has let me build a recent
> cvs head (you still need the non-cygwin dependencies as well).
>
> so, I suggest that the attached ghc-depends package is hosted
> at
>
> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/cygwin
>
> (or would some place on cvs.haskell.org be better?). Everyone
> could then add this URL to the cygwin mirrors when running
> setup.exe.
>
> There is no need to host any other cygwin packages, and the
> only non-empty file is cygwin/setup.ini, which looks like this
> (modulo line wrapping):
> ----------------------
> setup-timestamp: 1116116565
>
> @ ghc-depends
> sdesc: "glasgow haskell compiler build dependencies"
> ldesc: "glasgow haskell compiler build dependencies"
> category: Devel
> requires: ash autoconf (>=2.52) automake bash cygwin coreutils cvs
> diffutils doc book-xml42 xmlto libxslt file make patch openssh sed
> version: 2005-5
> install: release/ghc-depends/ghc-depends-0.0.1-1.tar.bz2 0
> d41d8cd98f00b204e9800 998ecf8427e
> source: release/ghc-depends/ghc-depends-0.0.1-1-src.tar.bz2 0
> d41d8cd98f00b204e9 800998ecf8427e
> ----------------------
>
> the timestamp you get by "perl -e 'print time'", the numbers next to
> the file names are file size and md5sum, so the only field that needs
> attention is 'requires:', which lists a sufficient set of
> dependencies
> for building cvs head (one might want to add some things for
> convenience?) and generating html documentation.
>
> note that the dependencies do *not* include any cygwin compilers
> or linkers, as those will be taken from the separate mingw install.
>
> as they stand, the dependencies do not allow building ps/pdf docs.
> should one add tetex (but some folks will already have a complete
> miktex installation anyway)? something else?
>
> cheers,
> claus
>
> - setup.exe, its .ini files, the directory layout for (partial) cygwin
> mirrors, etc., as well as the empty-package trick are documented:
> http://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/package-server.html
> http://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/setup-head.ini.html
>
> making and maintaining a real cygwin package would be a bit
> more involved
> http://cygwin.com/setup.html
>
> - you can use the same trick locally, eg. by adding an empty
> package for your typical personal cygwin setup to your local
> cygwin download directory;-)
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