On 08/09/2025 16:04, Carlo B. via Cygwin-apps wrote:
Hello,
I tried to make a CYGWIN package for moserial, a GTK-based serial terminal
Unfortunately, when starting to build, it stopped with this error:
/usr/share/cygport/cygclass/autotools.cygclass: line 334: intltoolize:
comand not found
intltoolize is used here:
https://github.com/cygwin/cygport/blob/8f58ef724b523fc7ec261c79053ed90c93b443ab/cygclass/autotools.cygclass#L334
Since intltoolize is used directly by a class of cygport, perhaps it
would be worth to also add intltool to the dependecies listed into
data/sample.cygport:
I'm not sure.
On the one hand, obviously yes.
On the other hand: installing cygport already pulls in a lot
'build-essential'-type stuff. Does it make sense for it to pull in all
the build tools for every metaproject it supports?
Especially in cases like this, where the error message is relatively
clear about the problem, and the solution (hopefully) not too obscure,
maybe we don't need to handhold?
(Orthogonal to this, there's probably some scope for certain inherits to
automatically add to BUILD_REQUIRES. At the moment, there's some logic
for this which lives in scallywag [1], but this probably belongs in
cygport proper - so that e.g. 'inherit gnome' will get you a warning
about required packages not being installed if 'gnome-common' is missing
etc.)
[1] https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-apps/scallywag/tree/analyze.py#n274
