On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Brian Dessent wrote: > [1] Aren't cygwin source packages supposed to compile easily, based on > the README? I pulled out a significant amount of hair just trying to > recompile the already-patched 1.3.24-5 package. Specificically, I had > to: modify src/Configure to use "-lgdbm_compat" instead of "-lgdbm", > move cyghttpd.dll from /usr/apache to /bin, and rebaseall. Why is this > left up to the poor shlob (i.e. me) to figure out? I swear I read > everything I could and that still didn't come close to half of the stuff > needed to get most packages to build.
Stipe, this is kinda true. When you release updated packages for Cygwin 1.5 can you change the install rules for the shared-core and the libs, and please update the Cygwin README noting the above. Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney, EMCB | http://www.nongnu.org/wwwauth/ http://www.emcb.co.uk | http://www.emcb.co.uk/webauth/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | wwwauth-users AT nongnu DOT org
