On 13/04/2013 15:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 13 12:39, Andy Koppe wrote: >> On 13 April 2013 10:03, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On Apr 13 06:55, Andy Koppe wrote: >>>> I'm struggling to get setup.hint generation to work. Is it supported >>>> with cygport 0.11.3 as currently in the distros? Below is the >>>> mintty.cygport I've got. Do I need to do anything else to trigger it? >>>> >>>> Cygport prints ">>> mintty requires:" at the end, which is correct as >>>> it doesn't require anything beyond the Cygwin DLL, but there's no >>>> setup.hint. >>> Sure? Did you look into the "dist" subdir in your builddir after >>> the install stage? It should contain a complete mintty dir for >>> upload. >> You're right, there is, inside the working directory created by >> cygport, and it looks correct. I'd expected the setup.hint to appear >> next to the .cygport and the packaged .tar.bz2 files. > > IIU Yaakov C, the dist dir is the way to go in future. The toplevel > files is the old style, supposed to go away at one point. I like the > dist dir approach a lot.
Glad to hear that. I also much prefer the dist dir to plonking all the files in the toplevel with no directory structure. It's much simpler for uploading. cheers, DaveK