On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 09:55:43PM +0800, JonY wrote: >On 11/10/2009 17:43, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Nov 9 21:03, JonY wrote: >>>>> On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 12:28:52PM +0800, JonY wrote: >>>>>> It is in Ubuntu:<http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/lzip> >>>>>> [...] >>>>>> category: Archive >>>>>> requires: cygwin libgcc1 libstdc++6 >>>>>> sdesc: "Lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm." >>>>>> ldesc: "lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm, with very >>>>>> safe integrity checking and a user interface similar to the one of >>>>>> gzip or bzip2." >>> Hi, >>> >>> Following Marco's advice, here is a wget'able list for lzip. >>> >>> http://www.cadforte.com/cygwin-uploader/lzip/lzip-1.8-1-src.tar.bz2 >>> http://www.cadforte.com/cygwin-uploader/lzip/lzip-1.8-1.tar.bz2 >>> http://www.cadforte.com/cygwin-uploader/lzip/setup.hint >> >> Packaging looks almost good. The binaries in usr/bin are missing >> the .exe suffix for some reason. >> >> >> Corinna >> > >Hi, > >It was built and installed that way with cygport (Cygwin 1.7), the >provided non-autotools build system for lzip was originally designed for >Linux, eg "g++ -o bar foo.o". > >I think it has something to do with the rename() thing, but otherwise, >it runs perfectly fine.
We really shouldn't release a package which contains binaries lacking .exe extensions. YA test for the package lint vaporware. cgf
