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Re: [ITP-2] glib-2.4.2-1 (NOT YET)
Hi Yaakov,
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> Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> | Renamed & repackaged tarballs:
> | http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/gtk+/glib/glib2-2.4.2-1.tar.bz2
> | http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/gtk+/glib/setup.hint
> |
> | http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/gtk+/glib/glib2-devel-2.4.2-1.tar.bz2
> | http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/gtk+/glib/setup.hint.devel
> |
> | http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/gtk+/glib/glib2-doc-2.4.2-1.tar.bz2
> | http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/gtk+/glib/setup.hint.doc
> If we've decided to keep this in /usr, then the binary packages look
> good to me; programs built against previous versions of glib2 are
> working fine, and I built perl-Glib against this and it passed all its
> tests.
> One last remark about the prefix: remember that libtool hardcodes the
> path of dependancy_libs in the .la, so switching paths means not only
> rebuilding one library, but rebuilding everything dependent on it. In
> other words, we want to decide this NOW.
> | http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/gtk+/glib/glib2-2.4.2-1-src.tar.bz2
> The build script needs a couple of changes; the patch is attached. The
> rest of us don't have a working gtk-doc installation, so
> - --disable-gtk-doc is needed. Note that the resulting glib2-doc tarball
> is half the size of yours, although the file list is the same AFAICT;
> not sure why.
Interesting, I'll try to figure out what the problem is.
> | Runtime package setup.hint:
> | ===
> | category: Libs Devel
> | requires: cygwin libiconv2 libintl2
> | sdesc: "low-level core library - runtime libraries and executables"
> | ldesc: "GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis of
> | GTK+ and GNOME. It provides data structure handling for C, portability
> | wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event
> | loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an object system."
> Does a runtime lib belong in Devel?
> | Devel package setup.hint:
> | ===
> | category: Libs Devel
> | requires: glib
> | sdesc: "headers and import libraries for glib"
> You need to add the line "external-source: glib2" here. You already
> corrected the requires line IIRC.
> | Doc package setup.hint:
> | ===
> | category: Libs Devel Doc
> | sdesc: "HTML docs and manpages for glib"
> Ditto for the "external-source: glib2" here.
Ok.
Gerrit
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