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Re: [Review - not yet] Re: [ITP] gtypist-2.7
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Yaakov Selkowitz <YSelkowitz at netscape dot net>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 13:46:35 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: [Review - not yet] Re: [ITP] gtypist-2.7
- References: <253C1E44.19B7D815.0CE3B6DD@netscape.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > Judging by the above list of packages that distribute help2man, just
> > stick it in the source distro. It's not that large. Although I would
> > put it in the regular source dir, not CYGWIN-PATCHES... Oh, and you'd
> > need to change GEN_MAN in configure.in and configure to something like
> > "$(srcdir)/help2man ./gtypist -o gtypist.1", anyway).
>
> I've tried this and a few other ways but it's not working. As soon as
> configure finishes the missing script takes over and calls config.status
> - --recheck. Exactly what needs to be changed and where to get this to
> work?
Ah, I see the problem! I had the same one with pdksh. When you create
the patch, the files are diff'ed in alphabetical order, which places
'configure.in' *after* 'configure' in the patch. This means that when the
patch command finishes, 'configure.in' will be newer than 'configure' --
hence the remake. I dealt with this by adding
touch ${srcdir}/stamp-h.in ${srcdir}/config.h.in ${srcdir}/configure && \
to the 'conf' step of the build script. It's a kludge, but it works.
> Or we could just get help2man in the distro, albeit not the newest
> version. Being a commonly-used GNU package, I'm frankly surprised that
> it isn't packaged for Cygwin, unless the newer versions' dependency on
> Locale::gettext was the problem.
>
> Thanks!
AFAICS, there was no need for it, as all the packages that used the script
in the build came with their own versions.
Igor
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