On 2010-02-25 10:13, Eric Blake wrote:
Several GNU packages are now starting to supply additional configure arguments in the --with-packager namespace, in order to ease the branding of a downstream distro build. My recent m4 1.4.14 build shows the effect of using them: [...] Notice the additional lines mentioning Cygwin. Is it worth teaching cygport to automatically supply configure arguments of:--with-packager=Cygwin --with-packager-version=$PVR \ --with-packager-bug-reports='<cygwin@cygwin.com>' for packages that support this idiom? If not, then this email serves as a hint for other packagers to modify their own .cygport files.
cygconf provides the standard arguments which are common to all autoconf-generated configures. AFAICS (but correct me if I'm wrong) these are not standard arguments, rather separate AC_ARG_WITHs which some packages are choosing to implement. In that case I consider them package-specific and I would encourage packagers to add them accordingly to those packages' CYGCONF_ARGS or as arguments to cygconf.
Thanks though for the heads-up. Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
