Re: gbs: not relying on ./configure --srcdir

2004-10-13 Thread Reini Urban
That's why I provided the lndir.sh utility in the packaging/templates directory. Er... packaging/templates directory of what? cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/cygwin-apps co packaging [server mknetrel wrappers cygrunsrv cygutils editrights ...]

Re: gbs: not relying on ./configure --srcdir

2004-10-13 Thread Schulman . Andrew
>> Problem: the --srcdir switch doesn't work in many configure scripts. Of >> the three packages I've built, one didn't have a configure script at >> all, and in the other two the --srcdir switch didn't work as it was >> supposed to. As a result the build step would fail. I had to set up a >>

Re: gbs: not relying on ./configure --srcdir

2004-10-12 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Schulman.Andrew wrote: > The gbs patches keep coming... > > Problem: the --srcdir switch doesn't work in many configure scripts. Of > the three packages I've built, one didn't have a configure script at > all, and in the other two the --srcdir switch didn't work as it was > s

Re: gbs: not relying on ./configure --srcdir

2004-10-12 Thread Reini Urban
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Solution: give up on --srcdir, and provide a function that automatically creates a tree of symlinks in ${objdir} to the files in ${srcdir}. I call this function stow(), after the stow(1) utility that does the same thing. The patch is below. This method is slower, becau

gbs: not relying on ./configure --srcdir

2004-10-12 Thread Schulman . Andrew
The gbs patches keep coming... Problem: the --srcdir switch doesn't work in many configure scripts. Of the three packages I've built, one didn't have a configure script at all, and in the other two the --srcdir switch didn't work as it was supposed to. As a result the build step would fail.