----- Original Message -----
From: "John Wiersba" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Well, what I'd like to do, and what should be standard for any package
> accepted into the cygwin archive (available to be downloaded with
> setup.exe), is that each package source tarball should build
out-of-the-box
> under cygwin with a simple make configure; make; make test (check?); make
> install, including the most recent "stable" cygwin source tarball. With a
For everything but cygwin1.dll, that _should_ work. Us maintainers put
pre-patched source (if cygwin patches are needed) into the src tarball. Have
you tried? If you've tried and a package didn't work, report a bug to the
maintainer - they will take it seriously. If you're asking a hyopthetical
"have the cygwin package maintainers done the obvious thing" then I think
you're wasting my time.
Some packages such as cygwin1.dll and gcc _WILL NOT_ build in the same
directory as the source. For them you need
mkdir pkgdir
cd pkgdir
tar xzf /path/to/tarball
mkdir obj
cd obj
../extractedpackagesrc/configure
make
Hope that answers the question.
Rob
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