[ITP] mlcscope-14.1.8 (Attempt 2)

[Peter A. Castro]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Dave & Diane wrote:

I actually use this tool for my work at work, and so I think officially
having it in the distribution would be great.

I give it a GTG and +1 vote, too.

> Thanks Reini!
>
> Volker already voted, are there 3 more votes out there?
>
> Cheers
> Dave
> Reini Urban wrote:
>
>> Dave & Diane schrieb:
>> 
>>> Could you take another look at the mlcscope packages and let me know if 
>>> anything else needs work?
>>> 
>>> 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
>> 
>> 
>> GTG and +1 vote from me.
>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> Dave
>>> Dave & Diane wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 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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