PROBLEM distcc On 2003-10-08T15:59+0100, John Morrison wrote: ) > sdesc: "A fast, free, distributed C/C++ compiler" ) > ldesc: "is a program to distribute builds of C, C++, Objective C or ) > Objective C++ code across several machines on a network" requires: gcc ) > category: Devel ) <http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j-n-s.morrison/john/cygwin/distcc/distcc-2.11.1-1.tar.bz2> ) <http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j-n-s.morrison/john/cygwin/distcc/distcc-2.11.1-1-src.tar.bz2> ) <http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j-n-s.morrison/john/cygwin/distcc/setup.hint>
One thing I noticed is that the documentation appears to be primarily in usr/share/doc/distcc/, with copies of COPYING, INSTALL, README, and TODO in usr/share/doc/distcc-2.11.1/. I believe all documentation is expected to be in usr/share/doc/distcc-2.11.1/, but surely there should be no duplicates. Also, the package includes the *directory* usr/share/doc/Cygwin/, but there are no files in it. There should be a Cygwin-specific file either called distcc-2.11.1.README or distcc-2.11.1-1.README. The package also includes the directory etc/postinstall/, which is empty. Not a hold-up, but if you are re-packaging anyway feel free to zap it. The usr/bin/distccd.exe file has a library dependency on cygpopt-0.dll, which my test machine does not have. The only dependency listed in setup.hint is "gcc"; it looks like you might need to add either "popt" or "libpopt0". distcc.exe, distccd.exe, and distccmon-text.exe all have a dependency on cygwin1.dll, which should require an additional dependency on "cygwin". It might seem intuitive that a Cygwin package requires "cygwin", and that listing it is just a formality, but some packages truly might not depend on "cygwin" (such as pure-documentation packages or pure-script packages). So, in the binary package, the documentation needs to be consolidated into usr/share/doc/distcc-2.11.1/, a Cygwin-specific README needs to be created in usr/share/doc/Cygwin/, and etc/postinstall/ should probably be killed. In setup.hint either "popt" or "libpopt0" should be required, and "cygwin" should also be required. I have not reviewed the functionality. (I am unfamiliar with the distcc utility, perhaps someone who voted for it? :) -- Daniel Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://naim-users.org/nmlorg/ http://naim.n.ml.org/ "If you place a small value on yourself, rest assured, the world will not raise your price."
