gcc and gcc-2 packages

2003-01-07 Thread Lapo Luchini
sdesc: "C, C++, Fortran compilers". Isn't the short desc a bit, ehm, "short"? I'd add the fact it does compile Java too, as an example, and that it is the GNU Compiler Collection maybe. BTW: can a shared version of libstdc++ be generated? I guess the answer is "not yet" as it would be in the pac

Re: Setup of default configuration files

2003-01-07 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 02:12:04PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: >> I think that for maximum immediate gain, it is worth considering >> this: Patch generic-build-script and mknetrel to detect certain files >> (/usr/info/*.info and /etc/defaults/*) in a package, and add a >>

Re: Setup of default configuration files

2003-01-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:16:20AM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: >"John Morrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Christopher and I had a little conversation at the beginning of >> December. It occured to me/us that a lot of cygwin packages >> have postinstall scripts which just copy default ve

Re: Setup of default configuration files

2003-01-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 02:12:04PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: >I think that for maximum immediate gain, it is worth considering this: >Patch generic-build-script and mknetrel to detect certain files >(/usr/info/*.info and /etc/defaults/*) in a package, and add a postinstall >script if found. Note th

Re: Setup of default configuration files

2003-01-07 Thread Max Bowsher
>> Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> That >>> is basically asking 27 package maintainers to change the way they do >>> things rather than just changing setup.exe. No - the boilerplate Cygwin packaging script is quite popular. Admittedly, I'd forgotten that mknetrel would need similar automagic. > Ro

Re: Setup of default configuration files

2003-01-07 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
"John Morrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Christopher and I had a little conversation at the beginning of > December. It occured to me/us that a lot of cygwin packages > have postinstall scripts which just copy default versions of > configuration files into the correct location if they don't