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From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Cc: Andy Li <andy@onthewings.net>
Subject: Re: adopt and update libatomic_ops and libgc
Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 09:52:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e23c5001-0f84-58a5-294d-4e064b1791e3@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-5HMu8kMqiSx4sFfEv9Dh0u-W3mt5LYu0XyV6oa=M5GVN=5w@mail.gmail.com>

On 09/05/2017 06:59, Andy Li wrote:
>> On 2017-05-08 05:54, Jon Turney wrote:
>>> libatomic_ops.cygport:
>>> A comment that we need to correct for this installing it's
>>> documentation into usr/share/libatomic_ops, rather that
>>> usr/share/doc/libatomic_ops might be nice.
>>> This could alternatively be written using a custom src_install which
>>> calls cyginstall then moves the directory, which might be less
>>> brittle to changes in the file list?
>>> This might be an upstream defect if it doesn't respect --docdir?
>
> Right, I've just sent a PR to the upstream to fix it. See
> https://github.com/ivmai/libatomic_ops/pull/25
> I've included it as a patch in the cygport file, which we can remove
> in the next version if the PR is merged.
>
>>> libgc.cygport:
>>> DEPEND might be better written pkgconfig(atomic_ops)
>>> Again, stuff installed to usr/share/gc/ should probably be moved to
>>> usr/share/doc/gc
>
> Similarly, the PR: https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/pull/161
>
>>> I note we also have libgc-7.2d-2 as non-source package, which just
>>> contains usr/share/doc/Cygwin/libgc.README. That probably needs to
>>> be cleaned up by being obsoleted.
>
> What is the procedure of obsoleting packages?

In this case I think you just need:

libgc_devel_OBSOLETES="libgc"

(See https://cygwinports.github.io/cygport/pkg_pkg_cygpart.html#robo445)

I added libatomic_ops and libgc to your package list.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-09  9:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-07 12:42 Andy Li
     [not found] ` <012a4d1f-6d82-422d-000a-f214a133df56@dronecode.org.uk>
2017-05-08 14:00   ` Brian Inglis
2017-05-09  5:59     ` Andy Li
2017-05-09  9:52       ` Jon Turney [this message]
2017-05-11 14:27         ` Andrew Schulman
2017-05-11 14:34           ` Andy Li

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