Compiling deja-dup
Maarten Jacobs
maarten256@hotmail.com
Wed May 1 01:03:00 GMT 2013
Larry, thanks for your responses...
> 1. Make sure your path does not include " ". Some of the packages I
> tried to compile from source failed with funny errors eluding to "Files/Windows"
> (obviously "Program Files/Windows") - once I updated my Path to not include
> references to "Program Files" those errors went away.
I assume you meant "Program Files" in your opening statement. Your solution
works. The alternative is to quote the internal paths with spaces or
otherwise escape the spaces.
>> Actually the error specifically states "Files/Windows". It took me a turn to figure out it was complaining about my path. I did try escaping the spaces in $PATH with a \ but that didn't have the desired effect... So I decided to update PATH to not have any spaces.
> 3. Most of the source I worked with came from
> ftp://cygwin.org/pub/cygwinports/release-2/GNOME, as it turned out a very
> good source of CygWin packages - including a few that not appear on Cygwin's
> setup (such as libpeas that I have not been able to find)
More than "a few" packages in Cygwin Ports are not in the official
distribution. :-) They can all be installed with 'setup.exe' if you add the
path to the Cygwin Ports repository to 'setup.exe' though.
>> Can you explain this a bit more - I'm not sure how to "add the path to setup.exe". I tried using the above URL from setup.exe - but it didn't give me an option to install deja-dup directly.
> 5. A number of my problems were caused by the fact that I was building
> my source on a network drive (as my home directory happens to be located on a
> share). My experience shows that building on the local machine works a lot
> better. I think it has something to do with symbolic links not working right
> on network shares (or is that just Samba network shares?)
Permissions are more problematic on your typical network share. If you can
avoid them, that makes things easier, yes.
> If anybody believes this compiled version of deja-dup would be share
> worthy I'm happy to do so.----------------------------------------
Is it really different from the one on Cygwin Ports? Regardless, if you
want to provide it as an official package for Cygwin, read through
<http://cygwin.com/setup.html> and in your ITA/ITP, just ask Yaakov if
he minds you picking up this package and its dependencies from him.
>> Hmm. It probably isn't - however (as I indicated above) I've not been able to figure out how I would go about installing it "directly" - i.e. without first downloading the source from Cygwin Ports and compiling/installing. Perhaps there's another trick I'm not aware of.
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