[ITP-1.7] botan-1.8.2-1
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Jun 10 16:38:00 GMT 2009
[Yaakov, ping?]
On Jun 10 16:22, Lapo Luchini wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Packaging looks ok, but did you really intend to support only static
> > linking against libbotan.a? There's no DLL in /usr/bin, nor a import
> > lib in /usr/lib.
>
> For now, yes, it's intentional??? the author told me shared libs are not
> currently supported on Windows and Cygwin, and I didn't have time to
> investigate the issue much further.
>
> I have DLL support in my TODO list for future versions, though.
>
> I'd prefer to have this package "soon" (and be able to package
> monotone-0.44) as opposed as having a "perfect" package in a month or
> so??? but if that's a problem, we can certainly live with monotone-0.42 a
> bit longer.
No, it's fine. If you say so, I'll upload it as is. Righht now I
can't, due to a strange permission problem on sourceware.
> BTW: monotone-0.44 also needs lua, that is currently available via
> CygwinPorts, but not as official packages??? I know no LUA and am not
> particularly interested in managing that package, but i'm willing to
> manage it, as it's needed for a package I'm very interested into???
Yaakov, would it be a problem to just move lua from cygwinports to
cygwin? AFAICS, it only relies on two libs which are part of Cygwin
anyway. Is there any downside?
Corinna
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