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Andrew Schulman schulman.andrew@epamail.epa.gov
Tue Sep 28 01:26:00 GMT 2004


>> I want to package and maintain LablGTK2 for Cygwin.  LablGTK2 is an OCaml
>> interface to GTK2.
> 
>> I posted this message a week ago, and got no response.  Maybe people are
>> busy,
>> which I understand.  OTOH if people groaned and pushed it out of their
>> minds when they read about the screwy license terms below, I'd appreciate
>> it if
>> you'd take another look and tell me your opinions.  I don't think there's
>> anything insurmountable there.
> 
>> My proposed unison-gtk2 package is waiting (I think) for lablgtk2 to be
>> available, since I use lablgtk2 to build it.
> 
> I got problems rebuilding it with Igors shared O'Caml version.  Since
> your package is linked satically against O'Caml libs it is no
> showstopper.

OK.  Yes, I also tried and failed to build lablgtk2 with the shared OCaml
version.  I gave up and used the current official version.
 
> I'll upload the package now, however, I would appreciate if you could
> switch to using the generic-build-script, I posted the LablGTK2
> package including the g-b-s earlier, just use it, please;)
> http://194.95.224.180/cygwin/lablgtk/test/
> there is the original source package, my pacth and the script.  Give
> it a try, it is so much easier to build with the script.
> Just call it several times:
> ./lablgtk-2.4.0-1.sh prep
> ./lablgtk-2.4.0-1.sh conf
> ./lablgtk-2.4.0-1.sh build
> ./lablgtk-2.4.0-1.sh install
> ./lablgtk-2.4.0-1.sh pkg
> ./lablgtk-2.4.0-1.sh spkg
> and everything is finished. Oh, well, you may run also
> ./lablgtk-2.4.0-1.sh finish
> to have absolutely finished.  There are also other tasks the script
> handles: 'check', 'depend', 'list', 'mkpatch', just play around with
> it to get used to it.

OK, I'm somewhat skeptical of the GBS, but will look into it.

Thanks,
Andrew.



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