From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5039 invoked by alias); 21 Jun 2013 18:05:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 5020 invoked by uid 89); 21 Jun 2013 18:05:27 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,TW_YG autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from etr-usa.com (HELO etr-usa.com) (130.94.180.135) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 18:05:26 +0000 Received: (qmail 81907 invoked by uid 13447); 21 Jun 2013 18:05:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO [172.20.0.42]) ([107.4.26.51]) (envelope-sender ) by 130.94.180.135 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 21 Jun 2013 18:05:24 -0000 Message-ID: <51C495E1.9040901@etr-usa.com> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 18:07:00 -0000 From: Warren Young User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygport limitations References: <51C0B08E.8080900@etr-usa.com> <51C0D956.4090905@etr-usa.com> <51C1B299.1000701@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <51C1F0F9.70601@etr-usa.com> <51C1FA8E.3000307@users.sourceforge.net> <51C33F38.4080103@etr-usa.com> <20130620181056.GA16923@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20130620181056.GA16923@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2013-06/txt/msg00582.txt.bz2 On 6/20/2013 12:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > If every maintainer would use cygport, it would allow us to change > the build method to one along the lines of most Linux distros. > In Linux distros, the maintainer provides only the spec file and > the source archive. The actual build for all supported platforms > could be done on a machine which creates the distro from there. With cygport, you wouldn't even need to provide sources. We could email in the new cygport file instead of an RFU. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple