Elfyn McBratney wrote: > > 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.
agreed fully. I'll drop this mail to my apache distribution dirctory, so it will be present when I re-package the upcoming version. Thanks for the notes. Stipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wapme Systems AG Vogelsanger Weg 80 40470 D�sseldorf Tel: +49-211-74845-0 Fax: +49-211-74845-299 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.wapme-systems.de ------------------------------------------------------------------- wapme.net - wherever you are
