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[setup] branch master, updated. release_2.869-11-g77303bc
- From: gratz at sourceware dot org
- To: cygwin-apps-cvs at sourceware dot org
- Date: 16 Feb 2015 17:59:24 -0000
- Subject: [setup] branch master, updated. release_2.869-11-g77303bc
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-setup.git;h=77303bce8458d4ad2dd37d1df591140fb5ab98f6
commit 77303bce8458d4ad2dd37d1df591140fb5ab98f6
Author: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@Stromeko.DE>
Date: Fri Feb 8 20:49:47 2013 +0100
README: document some recent changes in the build environment
* README: Adapt the documentation to the recent changes and some
not-so-recent ones.
Diff:
---
ChangeLog | 5 +++++
README | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index afe5d1a..bbc1def 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
2015-02-16 Achim Gratz <ASSI <Stromeko@NexGo.DE>>
+ * README: Adapt the documentation to the recent changes and some
+ not-so-recent ones.
+
+2015-02-16 Achim Gratz <ASSI <Stromeko@NexGo.DE>>
+
* Makefile.am (setup-src): Create file list for archive from
git-ls-files instead of cvs and create an XZ compressed archive.
diff --git a/README b/README
index b1586de..2582c05 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -4,30 +4,39 @@ for the Cygwin net releases.
HOW TO BUILD:
-------------
Setup should build out-of-the-box on any Cygwin environment that has all the
-required packages installed:
- - mingw-gcc-g++
+required packages and their dependencies installed:
+
- make
- - mingw-bzip2
- - mingw-libgcrypt-devel
- - mingw-liblzma-devel
- - mingw-zlib
- - and all packages that are dependencies of the above, i.e. gcc-mingw-core,
- mingw-runtime, binutils, w*api, etc.
+ - mingw64-${arch}-headers
+ - mingw64-${arch}-gcc-g++
+ - mingw64-${arch}-libgcrypt
+ - mingw64-${arch}-bzip2
+ - mingw64-${arch}-xz
+ - mingw64-${arch}-zlib
- upx (optional)
-The following additional packages are required if building from CVS, not from
-a source tarball, or if you want to make changes to the build system.
- - recent autoconf
- - recent automake
- - recent libtool
+The ${arch} needs to be replaced with either "i686" or "x86_64"
+depending on the target architecture to build for. The following
+additional packages are required if building from Git, or if you want
+to make changes to the build system.
+
+ - autoconf
+ - automake
+ - libtool
- flex
- bison
Build commands:
+
1) Configure using this option
$ /path/to/setup/bootstrap.sh
- This will automatically rebuild configure files and run configure in the
- current directory.
+ This will automatically rebuild configure files and run configure
+ in the current directory. If you have installed toolchains for
+ both i686 and x86_64 architectures, then you need to select for
+ which architecture you want to build:
+ $ /path/to/setup/bootstrap.sh --host=i686-w64-mingw32
+ $ /path/to/setup/bootstrap.sh --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
+
2) $ make
3) Wondering why your binary is so much bigger than the official releases?
@@ -60,22 +69,19 @@ As much as possible please provide only one goal per patch.
WISHLIST:
---------
- * Don't downgrade if the curr version is <= installed?
* Support rpm/deb files for reading the package from. (To allow the
maintainers the use of rpm/deb tools to create packages.)
- * Make a librar(y|ies) for setup and cygcheck to use containing
+ * Make a librar(y|ies) for setup and cygcheck to use containing
1) Something to translate POSIX -> native. Currently called "cygpath"
in setup, although this is probably a bad choice of name.
2) Something to return the list of installed packages.
3) Something to return the cygwin mount table. Currently, I have implemented
- a lightweight setmntent and getmntent using the code in
+ a lightweight setmntent and getmntent using the code in
4) Something to parse a tar file name into package/version or alternatively,
return that information from 2)
5) Something to return a list of files associated with a package.
* Mark versions as prev/curr/test in the GUI when clicking through them.
* Make setup.exe available through Add/Remove
- * Remove installed packages from Misc when other (non-All) categories are
- found.
* Local package scan stops updating when it stops being the active window.
* Some way to download *all* the source.
* Incremental/recoverable download capability.
@@ -97,7 +103,6 @@ WISHLIST:
* Don't ask about the start menu or desktop options if they already exist.
* Save the manual proxy settings so they don't need to be retyped.
* Detect files in multiple packages.
- * Run a different script after finishing setup.
* Show bin and src download size.
* Confirm cancellation of setup if in the middle of doing something.
* Improve mirror selection UI.