Re: Building from source packages

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On May 13 15:33, Jon Turney wrote:
> 
> Recently I've done a little prototyping of a system to build from uploaded
> source packages in a VM, to verify that they recreate packages with the same
> contents as the uploaded packages.
> 
> Issues I noted were:
> [...]
> * a handful of packages are oddities
> 
> These often contain source and patches, but no build script, so the
> configuration used by the maintainer to build the package isn't recorded (at
> least in a way accessible to automation)
> 
> pkg       ver         arch
> ---       ---         ----
> bzr       2.6+b2-2    x86    contains source for 2.6b2-1 and 2.6+b2-2
> exim      4.86-1      both
> fetchmail 6.3.21-1    x86
> flex      2.5.39-1    both   orphaned
> ipc-utils 1.0-1       x86

The orignal x86 package predates me using cygport.  The x86_64 package
has then probably been built by Yaakov, who's much less a slacker than
I am.  Just rebuilding the 32 bit packafge with Yaakov's 64 bit
cygport file will probably do.


Corinna

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