Re: Ghostscript packaging for X11, non-X11 versions

2002-07-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
Someday, I'm sure that I'll understand why people insist on redirecting cygwin-apps discussions to cygwin. Anyway, I'm redirecting this back to the correct mailing list. cgf On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 09:31:30AM -0700, Dario Alcocer wrote: On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 06:08:46AM +0100, John Morrison

Re: Ghostscript packaging for X11, non-X11 versions

2002-07-07 Thread Dario Alcocer
On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 01:07:57PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: Someday, I'm sure that I'll understand why people insist on redirecting cygwin-apps discussions to cygwin. Oops, I realized I had typed in the wrong address in the To:, of course right after I sent the darn e-mail off :-(

Re: Ghostscript packaging for X11, non-X11 versions

2002-07-06 Thread Nicholas Wourms
Dario Alcocer wrote: Are there any guidelines or suggestions regarding packaging source, patches and binaries for programs (like Ghostscript) that can be built for either Cygwin or Cygwin/XFree86? Unless I hear a very compelling reason to do otherwise, I'm planning on releasing three binary

Re: Ghostscript packaging for X11, non-X11 versions

2002-07-06 Thread Dario Alcocer
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 10:14:09AM -0400, Nicholas Wourms wrote: Dario Alcocer wrote: Are there any guidelines or suggestions regarding packaging source, patches and binaries for programs (like Ghostscript) that can be built for either Cygwin or Cygwin/XFree86? Unless I hear a very

Re: Ghostscript packaging for X11, non-X11 versions

2002-07-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 12:47:28PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: Of course, then there is my other rule that X apps live in the release/XFree86 hierarchy. I guess I should amend this rule to mean strictly X apps. It wouldn't make sense to scatter your distribution into different directories

Re: Ghostscript packaging for X11, non-X11 versions

2002-07-06 Thread Charles Wilson
Dario Alcocer wrote: Are there any guidelines or suggestions regarding packaging source, patches and binaries for programs (like Ghostscript) that can be built for either Cygwin or Cygwin/XFree86? Not yet... Unless I hear a very compelling reason to do otherwise, I'm planning on

Re: Ghostscript packaging for X11, non-X11 versions

2002-07-06 Thread Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson wrote: for non-x: prefix = /usr sysconfdir = /etc CFLAGS=${MY_CFLAGS} LDFLAGS=${MY_LDFLAGS} \ ${srcdir}/configure \ --srcdir=${srcdir} --prefix=${prefix} \ --exec-prefix=${prefix} --sysconfdir=${sysconfdir} \ --libdir=${prefix}/lib

RE: Ghostscript packaging for X11, non-X11 versions

2002-07-06 Thread John Morrison
I would go ahead and allow ALL of the scripts and man pages to be duplicated (bdftops, font2c, gslj, etc) into both /usr/bin/|/usr/man and /usr/X11R6/bin|/usr/X11R6/man -- without any renaming. Or have a ghostscript-docs-x.y.z which just contains documents... J. --- Outgoing mail is

Re: Ghostscript packaging for X11, non-X11 versions

2002-07-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 07:02:31PM +0100, John Morrison wrote: I would go ahead and allow ALL of the scripts and man pages to be duplicated (bdftops, font2c, gslj, etc) into both /usr/bin/|/usr/man and /usr/X11R6/bin|/usr/X11R6/man -- without any renaming. Or have a ghostscript-docs-x.y.z

Re: Ghostscript packaging for X11, non-X11 versions

2002-07-06 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 07:02:31PM +0100, John Morrison wrote: I would go ahead and allow ALL of the scripts and man pages to be duplicated (bdftops, font2c, gslj, etc) into both /usr/bin/|/usr/man and /usr/X11R6/bin|/usr/X11R6/man -- without any renaming. Or

Re: Ghostscript packaging for X11, non-X11 versions

2002-07-06 Thread Dario Alcocer
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 07:02:31PM +0100, John Morrison wrote: I would go ahead and allow ALL of the scripts and man pages to be duplicated (bdftops, font2c, gslj, etc) into both /usr/bin/|/usr/man and /usr/X11R6/bin|/usr/X11R6/man -- without any renaming. Or have a

Re: Ghostscript packaging for X11, non-X11 versions

2002-07-06 Thread Dario Alcocer
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 12:47:28PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 06:57:23AM -0700, Dario Alcocer wrote: Are there any guidelines or suggestions regarding packaging source, patches and binaries for programs (like Ghostscript) that can be built for either Cygwin or

Re: Ghostscript packaging for X11, non-X11 versions

2002-07-06 Thread Dario Alcocer
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 02:12:29PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 07:02:31PM +0100, John Morrison wrote: I would go ahead and allow ALL of the scripts and man pages to be duplicated (bdftops, font2c, gslj, etc) into both /usr/bin/|/usr/man and

Re: Ghostscript packaging for X11, non-X11 versions

2002-07-06 Thread Dario Alcocer
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 02:38:13PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 07:02:31PM +0100, John Morrison wrote: I would go ahead and allow ALL of the scripts and man pages to be duplicated (bdftops, font2c, gslj, etc) into both /usr/bin/|/usr/man

Re: Ghostscript packaging for X11, non-X11 versions

2002-07-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 04:02:21PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 02:38:13PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 07:02:31PM +0100, John Morrison wrote: I would go ahead and allow ALL of the scripts and man pages to be

Re: Ghostscript packaging for X11, non-X11 versions

2002-07-06 Thread Charles Wilson
Dario Alcocer wrote: For X: prefix = /usr/X11R6 sysconfdir = /etc CFLAGS=${MY_CFLAGS} LDFLAGS=${MY_LDFLAGS} \ ${srcdir}/configure \ --srcdir=${srcdir} --prefix=${prefix} \ --exec-prefix=${prefix} --sysconfdir=${sysconfdir} \ --libdir=${prefix}/lib

RE: Ghostscript packaging for X11, non-X11 versions

2002-07-06 Thread John Morrison
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 07:02:31PM +0100, John Morrison wrote: I would go ahead and allow ALL of the scripts and man pages to be duplicated (bdftops, font2c, gslj, etc) into both /usr/bin/|/usr/man and /usr/X11R6/bin|/usr/X11R6/man -- without any renaming.

RE: Ghostscript packaging for X11, non-X11 versions

2002-07-06 Thread John Morrison
Nicholas Wourms Dario Alcocer wrote: Well, my personal preference has always been to include whatever documentation a package has, whether it be man pages or supplementary HTML documentation. I figure if space is really an issue for a particular user, they can delete the documentation if