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cygport suggestion

Several GNU packages are now starting to supply additional configure
arguments in the --with-packager namespace, in order to ease the branding
of a downstream distro build.  My recent m4 1.4.14 build shows the effect
of using them:

$ m4 --version | head -n3
m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.14
Packaged by Cygwin (1.4.14-1)
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
$ m4 --help | tail -n4
Report bugs to: bug-m4@gnu.org
Report Cygwin bugs to: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
GNU M4 home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

Notice the additional lines mentioning Cygwin.  Is it worth teaching
cygport to automatically supply configure arguments of:

--with-packager=Cygwin --with-packager-version=$PVR \
     --with-packager-bug-reports='<cygwin@cygwin.com>'

for packages that support this idiom?  If not, then this email serves as a
hint for other packagers to modify their own .cygport files.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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