Re: I broke cygport

["Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

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Vin Shelton wrote:
> Have you had a chance to look at my patch which allows over-riding the
> individual configure arguments in cygconf()?  The patch is a
> definitely a brute force approach, but something like it is necessary
> to support XEmacs (or other packages that don't fully comply with
> autoconf conventions).

cygconf is intended only for autoconf-based configure scripts.  I'm not
familiar with XEmacs, but I do know that autoconf-based configures will
just ignore unknown arguments, so I will guess that XEmacs' configure is
not autoconf-based.

Non-autoconf-based configure scripts should do something like:

lndirs
cd ${B}
./configure <args> || error "configure failed"
cygmake

Note that this is consistent with Portage; the current xemacs ebuild[1]
does not use econf either.

[1]
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/gentoo-x86/app-editors/xemacs/xemacs-21.4.19.ebuild

> I will update the patch to the latest version of cygport if you want.

In general, all patches for cygport should be made against CVS HEAD, but
I don't think this needs a patch.


Yaakov

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