[ITP] mlcscope-14.1.8 (Attempt 2)

[Dave & Diane]

Reini,

Can you take a look at the lattest archives I made available? I hope 
this latest version is GTG.

All, Any other votes for mlcscope?

Cheers
Dave
Reini Urban wrote:

> Dave & Diane schrieb:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I would like to propose a new package, mlcscope for cygwin. I would like
>> to become the maintainer of this package. I have resolved the issues 
>> that Reini raised and am ready for another try...
>>
>> I'm including the setup.hint:
>>
>> $ cat setup.hint
>> # comment
>> sdesc: "Lucent version of cscope for multiple languages (mlcscope)"
>> ldesc: "Lucent version of cscope for multiple languages (mlcscope).
>> mlcscope is a source code browser tool allowing developers to simplify
>> searching source code. mlcscope differs from cscope by using
>> separate parsers for C/C++ and Java. mlcscope is developed by
>> Lucent Technologies."
>> requires: cygwin libncurses8
>> category: Devel
>>
>>
>> As far as I am aware, mlcscope is not available in any major Linux
>> distribution.
>>
>> I have placed the packages to be reviewed at
>> http://www.lowtechnet.com/cscope :
>>
>> http://www.lowtechnet.com/cscope/mlcscope-14.1.8-1-src.tar.bz2
>> http://www.lowtechnet.com/cscope/mlcscope-14.1.8-1.tar.bz2
>> http://www.lowtechnet.com/cscope/setup.hint
>
>
> [no GTG] There's still no README in CYGWIN-PATCHES and no instructions 
> how to build from src. You have to look into the binary packaged
> /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/mlcscope-14.1.8.README to get a hint.
>
> [good] The binary is now correspondent to cscope, that is does recurse 
> into the given dir to scan for all know sourcefile extensions.
> Previously you had to prepend this with a find pipe, which was awkward 
> given that it should have known about multiple languages.
>
> [minor] There's still the empty homepage dir in the src pkg and also 
> under src/homepage.
>
> [no GTG] Following the build instructions in mlcscope-14.1.8.README:
>   From /usr/src unpack mlcscope-X-src.tar.bz2
>     if you use setup to install this src package, it will be
>      unpacked under /usr/src automatically
>   cd /usr/src/mlcscope-X/src
>   make build install
> $ tar xfj mlcscope-14.1.8-1-src.tar.bz2
> $ cd mlcscope-14.1.8-1/src
> $ make build
> make: *** No rule to make target `build'.  Stop.
>
> That has to fixed into
>   cd /usr/src/mlcscope-X
>   make build install
>
> [minor] We prefer now to have the html docs in
> /usr/share/doc/mlcscope-14.1.8/html
>
> So please fix the README and add it to the src package.
>
> BTW: It still would be much easier to use cygport.
> The cscope-15.5-1.cygport file is this:
> DESCRIPTION="developer's tool for browsing source code"
> HOMEPAGE="http://cscope.sourceforge.net/"
> SRC_URI="http://puzzle.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/cscope/${PN}-${PV}.tar.gz" 
>
>
> cygport cscope-15.5-1.cygport get almostall



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