On 04/08/2020 21:49, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin-apps wrote:
On Tue, 04 Aug 2020 19:02:35 +0200, ASSI
Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin-apps writes:
And a next one is for making BUILD_REQUIRES a single-line list in
*src.hint files.
… or just don't embed newlines. Since cygport is bash under the hood
you can do
BUILD_REQUIRES+=" whatever"
instead of wrapping lines.
By squeezing white spaces, we can save some characters in *.cygport
files :). And new maintainers can avoid an issue relating newlines in
BUILD_REQUIRES without knowing it (I was trapped in it once).
Yes, this would be nice.
However, I think there is a consistency problem here, as other variables
which should only produce a single line in the .hint file (e.g.
REQUIRES, etc.) don't get whitespace canonicalized (as least, that's how
it seemed to me when I briefly looked at this).
Thanks for the patch.
