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Re: [patch] cygport
- From: "Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:16:26 -0600
- Subject: Re: [patch] cygport
- References: <453C180C.4060206@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
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Charles Wilson wrote:
| The attached patch (+ two new files) enables cygport to build
| "relocatable" packages using the framework devised by Bruno Haible -- if
| the upstream source supports it. Currently, only libiconv and gettext
| support this feature (coincidentally, the upstream maintainer of both
| packages is...Bruno Haible).
Forgive me for my ignorance on the topic, but what is gained through
enabling relocatibility? FWIW, I don't see Gentoo[1][2] using it, for
example. Do other distros use it?
[1]
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/gentoo-x86/sys-devel/gettext/gettext-0.15-r1.ebuild
[2]
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/gentoo-x86/dev-libs/libiconv/libiconv-1.11.ebuild
Yaakov
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