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Re: XFree86-base-4.3.0-3


Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:

On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:


setup.hint:

requires: cygwin cygipc expat termcap libncurses6 terminfo zlib
gettext libintl libintl1 ash pcre XFree86-bin XFree86-etc
XFree86-lib XFree86-fenc XFree86-fnts XFree86-startup-scripts
XFree86-xserv

Shouldn't libncurses6 be replaced by libncurses7,

That much I believe and have changed in the new release of -bin. I also moved most of the requirements that were specific to -bin from -base to -bin. There probably remains some work to be done on this.


libintl and
libintl1 removed, and libintl2 added ?

gettext too ? It isn't needed at runtime.

I'll need a more thorough investigation before I touch these. I wasn't able to find anything using libintl* at all during my initial investigation, but I would appreciate it if you would look into it further and tell us what your method was (e.g. run cygpath against *.exe and *.dll in the bin package and report which of the three are referenced and which are not). Same for gettext... I thought there was a script or something that used it and people were complaining a long time ago that it wasn't being installed automatically. Search the mailing list archives, it is probably one of the only messages referencing gettext.


The same in "Runtime requirements"  and "Build requirements"
for XFree86-base-4.3.0.README.

Again, fixed libncurses, but leaving the others alone unless we change them.


You know, now that the source packages are available, feel free to send me a comprehensive patch against the *.hint files that fixes this properly. It is difficult when someone asks me to make one change because it often ends up requiring that I change several .hint files. So, if you would like it to be improved, then put the time into doing the job right and send me the diff... otherwise I am likely to keep screwing it up as I make little changes.

Harold


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