Igor schrieb: > On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>> Igor schrieb: >> >> > Hi, >> >> > In the course of my real job duties, I built O'Caml under Cygwin. It >> > builds OOTB, and, even though there seem to be some minor packaging issues >> > to be worked out, looks like it'll be easy to package nicely, so I was >> > considering ITPing it. >> >> +1 vote from me. > Thanks, Gerrit. At this stage, though, I'm less concerned with getting > the votes, and more with the licensing issues. BTW, you ported the > earlier versions of O'Caml to Cygwin, didn't you? There was not much porting needed, I have it still online here: http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/ocaml/ and see the patch for the latest version I did: http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/ocaml/3.07beta2/ocaml-3.07beta2-1.patch Used this build script: #!/bin/sh cd ocaml-3.07beta2 make clean ./configure -with-pthread \ 2>&1 | tee log.configure make world 2>&1 | tee log.world make bootstrap 2>&1 | tee log.bootstrap make opt 2>&1 | tee log.opt make opt.opt 2>&1 | tee log.opt.opt echo "" echo "All done! Run <make install> now" echo "" even they stated in earlier versions that threads are not working with cygwin. But I never got to use it really. >> > However, parts of it are released under the "Q Public license", which >> > GNU lists explicitly as non-GPL-compatible. Does this mean an >> > automatic "no" to an official Cygwin package, or does anyone know of >> > anything that could be done to enable it? >> >> Huh? It is OSI certified: >> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/qtpl.php > Yes, but GPL incompatible > (<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html>). > Igor ianal, but i see there are also openssl, apache, and other licenses listed where packages are already included in the netrelease. Gerrit -- =^..^=