Re: [ITA] wget

[Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>]

On 2020-11-17 12:10, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Brian Inglis writes:
>> I dug up some Debian, Fedora, and OpenSuSE patches, and added them to the cygport.
>> OpenSuSE patches appear only to be available in their source package,
>> or online in their HTML page, for which I came up with a script to
>> grab a package's patch URLs, scrape those web pages for the patch
>> source, and convert from HTML to patch text. Do you know if there is
>> any way to access OBS patches as plain text?
> 
> Nothing that I've used before, but it wouldn't hurt to ask.  There
> obviously is some sort of an API that the osc CLI is using (I don't know
> any details of that either), but how far that extends to plain HTTPS
> REST requests I don't know.
> 
>> This build avoids autoreconf (from Eric).
> 
> That is probably not urgent, but I'd check if it can be re-enabled.  For
> a while Cygwin had a too old autoconf version that would not work with
> some packages tha twere using the newer ones, but that's no longer an
> issue I'd think.
> 
>> It would make sense to list DIFF_EXCLUDES in DISTCLEANFILES to avoid
>> them being packaged in the first place, as long as that did not break
>> the build.
>>
>> So should I set DISTCLEANFILES to all the files *created* in the
>> following log extracts, and set DIFF_EXCLUDES to those for which
>> patches are created, or could more of each list be added to both?
> 
> In principle you should remove all files that are recreated anyway in
> DISTCLEANFILES.  Now, generated files showing up in the diff at all is a
> likely deficiency in configure, as these should not be generated in the
> source directory at all, I'd think.  But getting a project that isn't
> quite cleaned up for a separate build dir to put the files in the right
> place (and later find them) can be quite an adventure.

Thanks again, that appears to be working after I tracked down one outlyer, and I 
pushed the updates to run under CI, which now also builds and tests cleaner.

I will try defaulting src_compile to allow autoreconfig, and push if it works.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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