cyport is not creating correct .src.patch file.

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net
Sun May 11 18:17:00 GMT 2014


On 2014-05-11 08:31, waterlan wrote:
> I'm working on package libpipeline-1.3.0-3. In my original .src.patch
> file I am patching 8 files. When I run cygport you can see that 8 files
> are patched:
[snip]
> when I look at the .src.patch file in the generated source package I see
> only 6 files patched:
[snip]
> The patches on config.h.in, configure are missing. How is this possible?

cygport ignores files generated by autoconf/automake/libtoolize/etc. 
during cygautoreconf.  This is done because patches to these generated 
files are large and often do not carry over well from one upstream 
version to another.


Yaakov



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