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Re: new package proposal : CLISP


On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Sam Steingold wrote:

> Igor,
>
> > * In message <Pine.GSO.4.56.0309091034270.19356@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
> > * On the subject of "Re: new package proposal :  CLISP"
> > * Sent on Tue, 9 Sep 2003 10:43:24 -0400 (EDT)
> > * Honorable Igor Pechtchanski <...> writes:
> >
> > On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Sam Steingold wrote:
> >
> > > > Binary package seems good, though it doesn't install cygwin-specific
> > > > documentation.
> > >
> > > /usr/share/doc/clisp/* is all the doc there is.
> > > or do you want .../clisp-2.31/?
> > > (everyone is different - cygwin/RH, debian ...)
> >
> > According to <http://cygwin.com/setup.html#package_contents>, a
> > Cygwin-specific README is required.  Some maintainers also include
> > port notes and other Cygwin-specific information (e.g., package
> > contents) in that file (see the generic readme file on the above page
> > for an example).  It's probably acceptable to have a one-liner
> > referring to the non-Cygwin-specific documentation in
> > /usr/share/doc/clisp.
>
> $ ls /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/ | wc -l
> 41
> $ cygcheck -c | wc -l
> 206
>
> so only 20% of packages supply this cygwin-specific README.

Try also "ls /usr/doc/Cygwin/ | wc -l" -- some older packages still have
their Cygwin-specific docs there.  That still doesn't cover all the
packages, but will probably bring the total to well over 50%.

> Oh well, I can throw something together.
>
> > > > Source package: it doesn't seems to have any specific instruction nor
> > > > a CYGWIN-PATCHES subdir.
> > >
> > > nothing cygwin-specific is needed.
> > > unix/INSTALL is all you need.
> > > CLISP builds OOTB.
> >
> > CYGWIN-PATCHES should contain at least the Cygwin-specific README (see
> > above) and setup.hint.
>
> so you want me to keep a separate 7MB source tar file just for the sake
> of redundantly redundant identical information already contained
> elsewhere.
>
> Oh well, disk space is cheap.

If you use the generic-build-script (I don't know whether you do or not),
you'd have to keep one anyway, at least long enough to upload it... ;-)

> > > > Last but not least, targetting cygwin-1.5.x is now a requirement
> > >
> > > Oh boy....
> > >
> > > I upgraded to 1.5.3 last Friday and I cannot _configure_!
> > > the configure scripts fail with:
> > >
> > > ./configure --with-module=syscalls --with-module=regexp --build --fsstnd=redhat --with-module=dirkey --with-module=bindings/win32 --with-module=clx/new-clx --with-libsigsegv-prefix=/usr/local/libsigsegv-cygwin build-O
> > > ......
> > > executing /cygdrive/d/gnu/clisp/current/build-O/avcall/configure --srcdir=../../ffcall/avcall --with-module=syscalls --with-module=regexp --with-module=dirkey --with-module=bindings/win32 --with-module=clx/new-clx --with-libsigsegv-prefix=/usr/local/libsigsegv-cygwin --cache-file=../config.cache
> > > configure: error: invalid package name: module
> > >
> > > the cause is an `expr' call which unexpectedly fails.
> > > if I add any other `expr' call right before the failing one, it works...
> > >
> > > advice?!
> >
> > Umm, sorry, I'm not as configure-savvy as I'd like to be...  Do you
> > use autoconf?
>
> yes.
>
> > If so, did you re-run it after upgrading?
>
> yes.
>
> > It would help knowing which versions of autotools you have installed.
>
> autoconf             2.57a-1        OK
> automake             1.7.5a-1       OK

Aren't those "test" versions?  Do you get the same problem with the "curr"
ones?  In any case, I'll just let some autotool expert (Chuck?) speak up
on this one.
	Igor
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