Re: cygport-0.9.3 in release-2

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

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Charles Wilson wrote:
> Okay, so these are (mostly) your own custom patches needed to port the
> code to cygwin, and not "official" patches from somewhere else, like
> 
>   1) bugfixes taken wholesale from another distro
> (http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-libs/ncurses/files/)
>   2) intra-release patches (see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/5.6/)
> 
> If it were 1) or 2), I'd suggest using
> 
> PATCH_URI="http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-libs/ncurses/files/ncurses-5.6-build.patch
> 
> ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/5.6/ncurses-5.6-coverity.patch.gz";

BTW, that's mirror://portage/sys-libs/ncurses/... for short, but you've
got the idea.

> a) my example, ncurses, has a LOT (50 or so) "official" patches
> b) they are all gz-compressed; cygport might not support compressed
> patches in PATCH_URI

Compressed single patches are supported in PATCH_URI since 0.3.5.

> So, in fact, for ncurses (where some of the official upstream "patches"
> are actually shell scripts with shar-compressed patches!) I actually
> DON'T specify these files in PATCH_URI. Instead, I specify them in
> SRC_URI, and then use src_unpack_hook to apply (that is, execute!) them.

Interesting, I'd like to see those "patches"; with the recent release of
ncurses-5.7, all the 5.6 patches are gone.

> Yaakov? Pretty please?

I think you know that I haven't been a big fan of this idea.
Nevertheless, cygport 0.9.x allows you to call src_compile(),
src_install(), or any self-defined function on the command line, but it
doesn't allow for any arguments to the function.  Adding that limitation
made the implementation much easier than what you were proposing, and I
hope that it will be sufficient.


Yaakov

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