On 14 April 2013 04:45, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > On 2013-04-13 00:55, Andy Koppe wrote: >> >> Cygport prints ">>> mintty requires:" at the end, which is correct as >> it doesn't require anything beyond the Cygwin DLL, but there's no >> setup.hint. > > > As Corinna already pointed out, this is a sign that the setup.hint > generation succeeded, and in this case the requires: line is blank (and > rightfully so, since mintty uses only cygwin1.dll and Win32 APIs). If it > had failed, there would have been a warning about a missing .hint file > instead. > > >> I've also tried installing cygport from git master but got this after >> running ./autogen.sh && make: >> >> make: *** No rule to make target `data/gnuconfig/config.guess', needed >> by `all-am'. Stop. > > > This is one quirk of git that I've never understood: git clone does not > expand submodules by default without the --recursive flag. Run "git > submodule update --init" to get these after a clone.
Yep, that did it. > BTW: > >> _CYGPORT_RESTRICT_postinst_doc_=1 > > > Variables beginning with an underscore are for internal use only. This > should be RESTRICT=postinstall-doc. But what problem did you encounter to > necessitate this? Took me a while to remember, but it's there to stop the LICENSE file from being installed, because that's the same as /usr/share/doc/common-licenses/GPL-3.0. RESTRICT=postinstall-doc didn't do this, but RESTRICT=postinst_doc does. Thanks, Andy
