cygport missing features after 0.3.9 [Was: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: inetutils-1.5-3]

[Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>]

> I just uploaded 0.3.9, so you should be able to start
> porting your customized .cygport's for it.
>
> Are there any other features you still need?

Dunno. I'll port forward my existing patches (except the relocatable 
stuff), and then see.  It's when I'm forward porting that I usually 
discover what's been obsoleted, and what needs to be reworked, among my 
patches.

Offhand, I'd say:

 (1) being able to specify a -d path to cvs that differs from 
CVS_MODULE (used by libgeotiff; the actual libgeotiff source is not a 
module itself, but is buried inside the 'geotiff' module. I don't want 
that other stuff, AND I don't want src/geotiff/libgeotiff, nor the 
libgeotiff-tarball having geotiff/ in it, where geotiff/ is otherwise 
empty.)

 (2) a post install hook (used by rxvt-unicode)

 (3) custom-cmds patch (otherwise running the cvs testsuite all-at-once 
is just too painful, since there is no -k option...it's shell script 
driven, not makefile driven)

THEN I'll think about how to port the bitrotted relocatable stuff.  But 
that may just be too ugly and intrusive, and not useful enough for 
anything other than libiconv and gettext, to push into the official 
cygport. I don't mind maintaining THAT out-of-tree; it was just that 
/plus/ all the other patches that made me want to take up a more serene 
hobby, like basejumping.

--
Chuck

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