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Re: PCYMTNQREAIYR (Was Re: cygwin packaging approach for atlas3.6and lapack3)
Brian Dessent wrote:
For the record:
On the issue of not having future binary packages blow away a
source-compiled optimized version, you could do something similar to how
the gcc-mingw-* packages work. Those packages unpack to a single .tgz
file and postinstall/preremove scripts that extract/remove
(respectively) its contents to the proper location. It's an extra level
of indirection in the packaging. (I'm not entirely sure why this is done
but I think it is a convenience so that the upstream mingw binary
tarballs can be used without repackaging.)
Not exactly true, repackaging is still needed for gcc-mingw since the
used paths are different. The main reason is that extracting the
packages would fail if the directory usr/i686-pc-mingw (and links
inside) is missing, so the postinstall script creates this directory
and links first before the tarball is extracted.
Gerrit
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