This is the mail archive of the cygwin-apps mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: Source packages for Cyg versions of gcc-mingw-(core and g++)


On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 04:44:56AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
>Dave Korn wrote:
>
>>   Yow.  I've been hacking my way through the gcc build script figuring out how
>> it works and I hadn't managed to work out where the mingw stuff comes into it
>> yet, now I guess I know that the answer is "It doesn't"!
>> 
>>   Ok, guess I'll have to do something about that.  Thanks for pointing it out,
>> Brian.  First things first, though: I'm only just getting on tops of how the
>> current packaging works.
>
>Also note the strange way in which gcc-mingw-* binary packages work --
>when unpacked by setup.exe only a tarball+scripts are actually
>extracted, which then later at postinstall/preremove time do the actual
>work of unpacking/deleting, respectively.  I recall asking Gerrit why
>this was at one point in the past but I do not recall the answer.  It
>certainly seems to me that these could be done as standard packages
>without this extra indirection, but I'm sure there was a valid reason
>for it at some point.

The answer to this question should be in the archives.  It seems to come
up once a year or so.

cgf


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]