On 2025-04-29 11:07, Soren via Cygwin wrote:
I read up some on cygport a while ago. My impression is that it makes
packaging apps in conformance with the standards of cygwin easier. I
don't remember clearly, but it didn't seem like a necessity for
building packages for local use. My recollection is that cygport just
automates the steps that a user would do:
$PATH_TO_SRC/configure <ARGS>
make
make check
make install
It does quite a bit more for you to check and setup up the build environment.
The point of the Autotools is of course to make source package
building work the same on every supported platform, and I have a
half-dozen Gnu/Linux systems as well as this computer running cygwin
on top of Windows 10, so I am a multi-platform user. I will explain
that, as I mentioned, "...re-familiarizing myself with Autoconfiscated
projects, primarily"; for personal reasons I ceased doing any sort of
work or play on computers for 8 years, resuming only about a year ago.
In that 8 years I aged (heh heh) and lost a lot of detailed knowledge.
I'll admit that I don't recall whether cygport patches the src for
you. I should find out since it would be a real labor-saver.
It makes applying the patches easier, especially if you get them from an
upstream distro like Fedora:
https://cygwin.github.io/cygport/cygport_in.html
documentation on Preparation stage between Downloading and Compiling:
https://cygwin.github.io/cygport/src_prep_cygpart.html
I will apply myself to reading the fine documentation for cygport. I
don't expect to have my hand held here on the list, I have been a
reader long enough to realize that repeating the same instructions
about cygport over and over is tiresome for the experienced readers.
I'm not likely to write "the next great tool" in C, as my C is rusty
as hell, and my main interests lie in using (and extending) Perl.
GNU patch 2.8 is now available and should be updated soon in Cygwin:
https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/patch
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/patch/
You can clone the cygport repo:
https://cygwin.com/git/cygwin-packages/patch
change the version, update the Fedora patch sources to F42:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/patch/raw/f42/f
comment out all the patches:
https://cygwin.com/git/?p=git/cygwin-packages/patch.git;a=blob;f=patch.cygport
probably also the autoconf version, and SCALLYWAG test suppression; then run:
$ cygport patch.cygport get all
and it may well build you a nice new version of patch, with all the build logs
under patch-2.8-1.x86_64/log/, the install tree under .../inst/ and the tars
under .../dist/, etc.
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retrancher but when there is no more to cut
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