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Re: Now that the new setup is here...
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 01:29:36 -0500
- Subject: Re: Now that the new setup is here...
- References: <3C9F9092.2030700@ece.gatech.edu> <3CA6AB30.6060905@ece.gatech.edu>
For lack of any response,
Charles Wilson wrote:
> Okay, how about now?
>
> --Chuck
>
>
> Charles Wilson wrote:
>
>> there were two things I was going to do:
>>
>> 1) move gettext from the contrib directory to the latest directory --
>> and see if anybody barfs.
I did this. It's been many moons and many point releases (and a major
release) since the last time we moved a package directory (ncurses, I
think) from contrib to latest. Hopefully the changes in the internal
logic -- and the greater reliance on setup.ini -- mean that this will
cause little if any disruption. (Also, Robert asserts that it will
cause no damage). So, a test (in preparation for cgf's possible reorg?)
Besides, we have a several 'latest' packages (bison, grep, sharutils,
texinfo, textutils, vim) that depend on libintl (gettext). The "policy"
was that 'latest' stuff should depend only on other 'latest' stuff --
that was the rationale for moving ncurses, anyway.
>> 2) update bzip2 to the latest release -- which involves the grand
>> library split thing (bzip2 -> bzip2 + libbz2_0). However, the name
>> "libbz2_0" is incompatible with the old setup, and even 'cygcheck -c'
>> gets confused prior to the cygwin-1.3.8 release.
But I didn't do this.
--Chuck