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FW: whois package
- From: Mark Bradshaw <bradshaw at staff dot crosswalk dot com>
- To: CA List <Cygwin-Apps at Cygwin dot Com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 23:51:20 -0500
- Subject: FW: whois package
It built OOTB. I remove some source for an alternate mkpasswd app the
author had included. It wasn't needed for whois functionality. I didn't
really consider that patching the app. Other than that, the only
modifications that I made were to the Makefile to get things pointing in the
right direction.
I know the readme isn't that informative, but there just wasn't that much to
tell. The author gave no instructions on the usage for whois, so I didn't
bother either.
The revert patch puts things back together, including the mkpasswd source.
It didn't seem like it really applied to whois though, so I didn't mention
it in the readme. If that bugs you I'll change it. Again, I didn't change
ANY whois source. Oh, now that I think about it I did make one small change
to some ancillary perl apps that help during the build process. It was a
one-liner that is so trivial I doubt anyone'd care, but kept them from
causing problems under some conditions. In any case, they're in the revert
patch.
Considering the small changes I made, I don't think it'd be necessary to
split out another directory for cygwin patches. But, you're the pro. If
you still think I should make the changes let me know.
Mark
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerrit P. Haase [mailto:gp@familiehaase.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 3:42 AM
> To: Mark Bradshaw
> Cc: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: whois package
>
>
> Hallo Mark,
>
> Am 2002-01-09 um 05:24 schriebst du:
>
> > Just wanted to drop in a reminder about the whois package. Could I
> > get an official/unofficial nanny to check it over, or at
> least a note
> > telling me to shut up til people have more time?
>
> > http://www.networksimplicity.com/whois
>
> I tried the executable, it seems to work well.
> It is stripped now;)
>
> The Cygwin specific README is in the source package.
>
> Though, I prefer some more specific infos in the README,
> so it isn't absolutely correct as you stated in the Cygwin
> README, that you changed nothing than the prefix in the
> makefile, there is this patch which, applied would put the
> sources back to their original form.
>
> Or isn't the patch part of your port to Cygwin?
>
> Usual, or what is used often, is a seperate directory for
> platform specific files like there is this debian directory,
> on Cygwin there is often used a seperate directory too, named
> `CYGWIN-PATCHES'.
>
>
> Gerrit
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