cygport suggestion: src_postinstall

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net
Sun Mar 11 23:42:00 GMT 2012


On 2012-03-11 17:53, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 3/11/2012 8:52 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
>> If you don't like my suggestion of providing src_postinstall, then
>> I think there should be a different way for cygport users to have
>> some control over the postinstall process. What about defining
>> variables (like PREPEMACS, etc.) that allow the user to turn the
>> __prep* functions on or off?
>
> If you don't like this suggestion either, what about the attached
> patch? The rationale is that if the compile and install steps have
> produced some byte-compiled files, then there's no reason for cygport
> to step in and do more.

Just because *some* files have been byte-compiled doesn't mean that 
*all* possible files have been.  So what about using "--eval 
(batch-byte-compile `true)" instead of "-f batch-byte-compile"?  That 
will ignore any files that have already been compiled.


Yaakov



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