Re: [RFC] SWIG package

2002-04-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 03:06:03PM -0400, Gerald S. Williams wrote: I'm not familiar with the netiquette here. Should this actually be an RFP or ITP? Anyway, I'd like to volunteer to maintain a SWIG package for Cygwin. Proposed setup.hint: --- category: Devel requires:

RE: FW: libtool devel package still dll crippled.

2002-04-19 Thread Ralf Habacker
1. When someone build a shared lib on linux and uses a static lib, are the symbols of the static lib automatically exported ? Yes, using a static lib is no different than compiling that code directly into your codebase. Thats the behavior we have on cygwin, isn't it 2a. If yes, and

Re: When to release a threaded cygwin Python?

2002-04-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 07:44:17AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: Chris, On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 12:44:18PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 08:03:55AM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: Here's the deal. Although a threaded Cygwin Python runs just fine under Cygwin

RE: strange source packaging?

2002-04-19 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 3:13 AM I'll add another penny to make it 2c. I agree with Chris that I'd rather already have the patch applied. Why? If it's for ease of use, then fine - I agree that what the user

RE: strange source packaging?

2002-04-19 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 12:44 AM of the antecedent project. There is no way, given just gcc-2.95.3-5-src.tar.bz2, to revert to the 'original' source -- short of also downloading the 2.95.3 source from

Re: strange source packaging?

2002-04-19 Thread Charles Wilson
Robert Collins wrote: And the GPL requires us to document the changes made - if we have the patch pre-applied, with no reverse patch, then this isn't the case. Asking folk to go elsewhere to get that 'pristine' source puts the onus on the upstream to make that available, which we can't do -

RE: strange source packaging?

2002-04-19 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 10:57 PM To: Robert Collins Cc: Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: strange source packaging? Robert Collins wrote: And the GPL requires us to document the changes made - if we

Re: strange source packaging?

2002-04-19 Thread Earnie Boyd
Charles Wilson wrote: Robert Collins wrote: And the GPL requires us to document the changes made - if we have the patch pre-applied, with no reverse patch, then this isn't the case. Asking folk to go elsewhere to get that 'pristine' source puts the onus on the upstream to make that

RE: [RFC] SWIG package

2002-04-19 Thread Gerald S. Williams
That's because I haven't built them yet (actually I have, but I want to do a clean rebuild with the latest official SWIG, which I'll probably do early next week). I interpreted the instructions at http://cygwin.com/setup.html#submitting as indicating that I should first propose the package, in

Re: [RFC] SWIG package

2002-04-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 01:56:39PM -0400, Gerald S. Williams wrote: That's because I haven't built them yet (actually I have, but I want to do a clean rebuild with the latest official SWIG, which I'll probably do early next week). I interpreted the instructions at

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin/xfree86 setup.exe packages available for comments and testing

2002-04-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 12:52:27PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 01:24:48AM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote: Chris, Shall we add this to the cygwin distro or are we still waiting for some postinstall shell script work? These will forever be known as Harold's Famous Last

RE: strange source packaging?

2002-04-19 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 12:20 AM Section 2.a You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that you chaned the files and the date of any change. /Section 2.a A differences file

Re: attn cgf - single build integration

2002-04-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 09:49:34AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: Chris, I'm approaching a point with libgetopt++ that I'll want to roll it into setup. This will (obviously) affect the single-build procress, so I'm hoping that you can confirm or suggest alterations to my plan: I think that

Re: cygwin/xfree86 setup.exe packages available for comments and testing

2002-04-19 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Harold Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Excellent idea. Now I just need someone to write that script. Shouldn't be too hard. Any takers? How about fontdir=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts wfontdir=`cygpath -w $fontdir` mount -bfs $wfontdir $fontdir 2 /dev/null || mount -bfu $wfontdir $fontdir

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin/xfree86 setup.exe packages available for comments and testing

2002-04-19 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Harold Hunt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 6:56 AM In a related question that has to do with my laziness, I need a way to tarball a CVS tree without including the CVS directories. I'm sure this can be done with a simple

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin/xfree86 setup.exe packages available for comments and testing

2002-04-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 04:55:57PM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote: The main problem with -src packages for us is that almost nothing will change after an XFree86 release except for the xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xwin directory, where I make modifications to the XWin server. So, what do I do for packaging?

Re: cygwin/xfree86 setup.exe packages available for comments and testing

2002-04-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 11:17:56PM +0200, Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote: Harold Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Excellent idea. Now I just need someone to write that script. Shouldn't be too hard. Any takers? How about fontdir=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts wfontdir=`cygpath -w $fontdir` mount

RFP: boost libraries

2002-04-19 Thread Robert Collins
Is there anyone on this list interested in providing a distribution of some/all of the boost C+ libraries? Rob

RE: attn cgf - single build integration

2002-04-19 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 10:13 AM Btw, if you want to set up a web page off the cygwin directory, that's ok, too. I don't think I could justify a new top-level web page given the fact that I've

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin/xfree86 setup.exe packages available for comments and testing

2002-04-19 Thread Charles Wilson
Robert Collins wrote: we have to make XFree86-base-src the package that contained the full source archive. Hmm. Yes. I think this would work. That might be the best solution. In fact, it may be a nice trend setter. I think setup.exe needs a little work before doing this, but it's a

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin/xfree86 setup.exe packages available for comments and testing

2002-04-19 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 12:59 PM Also, setup must do the following (even without new 'views' and whatnot) Setup should already do that, why not make a test setup.ini and see what happens :]. It's all data

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin/xfree86 setup.exe packages available for comments and testing

2002-04-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 10:59:29PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: P.S. Chris, where'd upset go? the current version used to be in htdocs, but it's gone now. AND, the old version which lived in cinstall/temp, is still there -- and you said you were going to remove it.

Re: attn cgf - single build integration

2002-04-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 01:20:03PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: -Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 10:13 AM Btw, if you want to set up a web page off the cygwin directory, that's ok, too. I don't think I could