[PATCH] setup -e, --separate-src-dirs option

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Thu Dec 15 14:01:00 GMT 2011


On 12/15/2011 7:58 AM, marco atzeri wrote:
> On 12/15/2011 9:56 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> I'm wondering if what you did in your patch shouldn't be just the
>> default behaviour. No -e option.
>
> not a bad idea.
>
> +1
>
> almost all the cygwin source packages have no subdir structure,
> including all the ones packaged with cygport.

+1

I've often downloaded sources and found a bunch of patches in /usr/src, 
with no way of guessing from the filenames which package they belong to.

Ken



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