[snip] > > It's perhaps worth mentioning that I don't maintain any per-package > > customizations to the g-b-s directly, but instead have > written myself > > a Python script which modifies the basic g-b-s according to a > > per-package rules file. > > > > For example, here are my rules for neon: > > > > ConfigureArg --enable-shared > > ConfigureArg --disable-static > > ConfigureArg --with-ssl > > SubPackage libneon24-$VER-$REL.tar.bz2 usr/bin/cygneon-24.dll > > > > The script is attached. > > Thanks, I'll take a better look at the script later, but at > the very least the configure args can be factored out into a > variable. FWIW, I don't have any ideas on how to handle > subpackages properly, but perhaps your script contains some > hints on that as well. > Igor
I've had to do the same thing with config vars with mutt, and I'm sure pretty much every package that uses it needs to. -- Gary R. Van Sickle