On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 08:41:05AM +0100, Achim Gratz wrote: >Christopher Faylor writes: >> You'd really be much better served to submit one patch at a time. > >Noted. > >> If you look at bootstrap.sh, you will see why I'm puzzled why this should be >> needed. The script is intended to be run from the build directory which >> should be separate from the source directory. > >In all the combinations I tried, this didn't result in a working build >environment, but let me try again. It is possible I got fooled by >CVSgrab and there's still something missing in my source tree. > >> "strip" as a target is really not a good idea. > >I'm not wedded to the name and I really only intend to use "upx" myself >(whose name is also up for grabs if you don't like it). > >> Who is the target audience for this? > >I'm in the process of updating our age-old "IT approved" Cygwin >installation to 1.7.x. One of the things I need to provide is the >ability to "freeze" and "roll back" installations to some known state >and do it from a script.
I'm really not too keen on adding hacks to setup so that people can use it for other than its intended purpose. The code is already a complicated obtuse mishmash and adding more stuff which would be used by only one person doesn't seem like a good idea. cgf