On 14/06/2025 16:12, Carlo B. via Cygwin-apps wrote:
bzip2-1.0.8 does not include support for pkg-config, but all major
linux distributions included it, by providing the script directly to
the package.
See for example the sources of that package for arch linux:
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/bzip2
I did a similar thing, by adding a bzip2.pc.in, which will be used by
the cygport script for generating the bzip2.pc file.
While I was on the topic, I also improved a bit the script, by adding
the information about the license.
I hope that the maintainer of the BZip2 package for CYGWIN will find it useful.
Thanks for this!
Unfortunately, our bzip2 maintainer doesn't seem to be active at the
moment.
(I've sent him a (hopefully polite) email asking if he intends to return).
In the meantime, I'll look into applying your patch and rebuilding this
package, but... well, having the project depend on me to do this every
time isn't very reliable and doesn't scale well...
As an aside, can you mark mails like this with [PATCH bzip2], or
something similar? [ITP] specifically means that you are offering a new
package (See [1]).
[1] https://cygwin.com/acronyms/
