Re: [ITP] ccache

2002-05-19 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Christopher, Am Sonntag, 19. Mai 2002 um 04:40 schriebst du: Out of curiousity, has anyone tried this: http://ccache.samba.org/ on cygwin? It seems to provides an amazing speedup for compilations. It builds OOTB. On linux, this makes my cygwin builds so fast, that it almost

Packaging error with latest texinfo-4.2-2.tar ??

2002-05-19 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi The directory /usr/info is empty in the texinfo-4.2-2.tar archive. At least in the texinfo-4.1-1.tar file it was populated with: -- TAR:texinfo-4.1-1.tar\usr\info info.info¦ 5425 info-stnd.info ¦263 info-stnd.info-1

Re: [ITP] ccache

2002-05-19 Thread Lapo Luchini
I once was so angry because reconfiguring takes everytime so long and does always the same that I intended to to such kind of package myself, it seems this isn't no longer needed and I will use it as much as possible if it works out to be useful. Same for me, that must me a dream, looking

Why is also Misc category installed for a fresh Cygwin install ?

2002-05-19 Thread Ton van Overbeek
When testing my patch for the Setup source download incomplete problem I noticed that a fresh install pulls in all packages in Base and Misc. Before there were no packages in Misc in setup.ini, but now there is: ccache. (That's how I noticed it, ccache showing up in the chooser list for a fresh

Re: [ITP] ccache

2002-05-19 Thread Lapo Luchini
It will not save any time in running configure (except for all the test compilations while running configure). I always thought they were 90% of configure's time.. am I wrong? -- Lapo 'Raist' Luchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PGP X.509 keys available) http://www.lapo.it (ICQ UIN: 529796)

RE: Why is also Misc category installed for a fresh Cygwin install ?

2002-05-19 Thread Robert Collins
As you say, ccache should be a devel package, not misc. I missed that in Chris's setup.hint. Chris - any objection to switching ccache to Devel? As for requires, it cacn cache any compiler, so it doesn't require gcc. Misc is always installed, as is base. When you have a local package dir with

RE: [PATCH] Setup.exe 2.218.2.9 does not like its own source

2002-05-19 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Ton van Overbeek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 3:26 AM The attached patch makes setup download the source of setup without complaining. I am not totally at home with all the logic in package_meta.cc and its interaction with

Re: Packaging error with latest texinfo-4.2-2.tar ??

2002-05-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 05:16:16PM +0200, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: The directory /usr/info is empty in the texinfo-4.2-2.tar archive. Thanks for the notification. This should be corrected in texinfo-4.2-3. There were also some other files missing. This was YA case of a package not liking the

Re: Packaging error with findutils-4.1.7-3

2002-05-19 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 02:51:22PM +0200, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: See subject. findutils-4.1.7-3 installs .mo files under /lib/locale/ instead of /usr/share/locale/ Thanks for the heads up. Should be fixed. Enabling --auto-import for ld solved this problem.

Re: binutils status?

2002-05-19 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: I lost track. Should I make a new release or are we waiting for something new to be added? I just rebuilt binutils and made --auto-import the default. Is there a compelling reason for not doing this in the next release? I know that --auto-import isn't perfect

Re: Packaging error with findutils-4.1.7-3

2002-05-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:37:58AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 02:51:22PM +0200, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: See subject. findutils-4.1.7-3 installs .mo files under /lib/locale/ instead of /usr/share/locale/ Thanks for the heads up. Should be

Re: binutils status?

2002-05-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:50:46AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: 1) Ralf's removing unused _nm_ symbol exports fix 2) Danny's (or Ralf's?) export-list fix (where whole static archives can be marked for non-export, or DO export...helpful for convenience libs) 3) Ralf's patch for objdump/cygwin

Re: Packaging error with findutils-4.1.7-3

2002-05-19 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: Can't you imagine all sorts of scenarios where a configure script, which assumes normal unix linking of external symbols, becoming confused if --auto-import wasn't on. Of course. must get more sleep. Second, why do you have to specify --auto-import for

Re: Packaging error with findutils-4.1.7-3

2002-05-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 01:30:00AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: I applied the following patch to the sources: Oops. My *binary* ld.exe is your official release. However, my local copy of the SOURCES had already been modified at some time in the distant past, with the patch you described.

Re: binutils status?

2002-05-19 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:50:46AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: 1) Ralf's removing unused _nm_ symbol exports fix 2) Danny's (or Ralf's?) export-list fix (where whole static archives can be marked for non-export, or DO export...helpful for convenience libs) 3)