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Re: a2ps download site
- From: David_Hudson at capgroup dot com
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 07:53:05 -0700
- Subject: Re: a2ps download site
Hi Igor,
Where are you seeing an 800K patch? My patch basically includes a just the
setup.hint and README files and is about 5K.
I use Autoconf 2.13 and it runs fine. However, the configure file it
generates does not run properly.
I am curious why I should not include the original configure file. The
Cygwin Package Contributor's Guide says I should include it. Also, every
cygwin src package I have downloaded (including cygwin itself) contains a
configure file.
Dave
Igor Pechtchanski
<pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot e To: David Hudson/INV/CG/CAPITAL at CG
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04/14/2003 12:53
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Dave,
The patch still includes auto-generated files. I doubt an 800k patch is
necessary to build a package that builds OOTB on Cygwin. Please
regenerate the patch after doing a "make distclean" in the source
directory. Also, your patch has CRLF endings, please run d2u on it.
Igor
P.S. I realize that the original source distro also includes "configure"
and the like.
P.P.S. Which version of autoconf did you use to build the package? I have
2.13 and it bombs on the AC_REPLACE_TYPES macro in configure.in (I'm not
discounting cockpit error, though). But if the package does require
specific versions of autotools, it should be mentioned in the README.
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 David_Hudson at capgroup dot com wrote:
> Here are the direct links to the files:
>
> http://mysite.verizon.net/res1xzsj/cygwin/a2ps-4.12-1.tar.bz2
> http://mysite.verizon.net/res1xzsj/cygwin/a2ps-4.12-1-src.tar.bz2
>
> I fixed the README file as well.
>
> Igor, I have been using gcc 3.2 to build the package. Maybe that explains
> the build problem. The fix is very simple, but I want to test it a bit
> first before release it.
>
> Thanks
> Dave
>
>
> Igor
> Pechtchanski To: David
Hudson/INV/CG/CAPITAL at CG
> <pechtcha at cs dot n cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
> yu.edu> Subject: Re: a2ps download
site
>
> 04/14/2003
> 09:17 AM
> Please respond
> to cygwin-apps
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 David_Hudson at capgroup dot com wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for the feedback so far.
> >
> > I am not sure why version 4.13 (the latest version) does not compile
> > on my machine since it compiles out of the box on everyone else's. I
> > will take a look at that, but would like to contribute v4.12 in the
> > meantime. I have uploaded the binary and the source at:
> >
> > http://mysite.verizon.net/res1xzsj/cygwin/
> >
> > Let me know how it goes.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Dave
>
> Dave,
>
> Some feedback:
> For the future, it's usually a good idea to provide direct links to files
> in the message, rather than a page link...
>
> The packaging looks good. I have a few nits for the source package,
> though:
> - Since you include autoconf and configure into the build instructions,
> there is no need to include auto-generated files (e.g., Makefile) into
the
> patch. Please do "make distclean" before running diff.
> - Why do the build instructions in the readme require cd'ing to "cygwin"
> to run configure?
>
> Also, there is a typo in the README: "require ant special installation"
> ^
> Other than that, are you using gcc 3 or gcc 2 to compile 4.13? Back when
> it worked for me, I used gcc 2. It's quite possible that gcc 3 is
> stricter about some things...
> Igor
> P.S. I haven't verified that the package executables work... I don't
> normally use a2ps heavily (if at all).
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