[Resummited to cygwin-apps on request of Igor] Hi,
the build-script of the smartmontools package creates the "Cygwin/package-*.README" file from "srcdir/CYGWIN-PATCHES/package.README.in" by replacing VER/REL with the current version/release numbers.
This might be useful for other packages to avoid extra editing of README on each minor release.
A patch for generic-build-script 1.43 is attached. Christian
--- generic-build-script.orig Sat Nov 12 15:21:55 2005 +++ generic-build-script Fri Nov 18 10:54:58 2005 @@ -220,9 +220,16 @@ mkdir -p ${objdir} && \ conf ) } +buildreadme() { + sed "s/<VER>/${VER}/g;s/<REL>/${REL}/g" +} build() { (cd ${objdir} && \ - make CFLAGS="${MY_CFLAGS}" 2>&1 | tee ${makelogfile} ) + make CFLAGS="${MY_CFLAGS}" 2>&1 | tee ${makelogfile} && \ + if [ -f ${srcdir}/CYGWIN-PATCHES/${PKG}.README.in ]; then \ + buildreadme < ${srcdir}/CYGWIN-PATCHES/${PKG}.README.in \ + > ${objdir}/${FULLPKG}.README; \ + fi ) } check() { (cd ${objdir} && \ @@ -230,7 +237,8 @@ } clean() { (cd ${objdir} && \ - make clean ) + make clean && \ + rm -f ${objdir}/${FULLPKG}.README ) } install() { (cd ${objdir} && \ @@ -269,8 +277,11 @@ /usr/bin/install -m 644 $templist \ ${instdir}${prefix}/share/doc/${SHORTPKG} ; \ fi && \ - if [ -f ${srcdir}/CYGWIN-PATCHES/${PKG}.README ]; then \ - /usr/bin/install -m 644 ${srcdir}/CYGWIN-PATCHES/${PKG}.README \ + if [ -f ${srcdir}/CYGWIN-PATCHES/${PKG}.README.in ]; then \ + /usr/bin/install -m 644 ${objdir}/${FULLPKG}.README \ + ${instdir}${prefix}/share/doc/Cygwin/${SHORTPKG}.README ; \ + elif [ -f ${srcdir}/CYGWIN-PATCHES/${PKG}.README ]; then \ + /usr/bin/install -m 644 ${srcdir}/CYGWIN-PATCHES/${PKG}.README ] \ ${instdir}${prefix}/share/doc/Cygwin/${SHORTPKG}.README ; \ elif [ -f ${srcdir}/CYGWIN-PATCHES/README ] ; then \ /usr/bin/install -m 644 ${srcdir}/CYGWIN-PATCHES/README \