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Re: cygport package has one dependency missing
- From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 00:24:51 -0600
- Subject: Re: cygport package has one dependency missing
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On Tue, 2015-02-24 at 10:55 +0100, Marcos Vives Del Sol wrote:
> File "/usr/share/cygport/cygclass/autotools.cygclass" requires
> "autopoint", which is part of "gettext-devel" package but it isn't
> specified in the setup.hint, and therefore it doesn't get installed
> when selecting "cygport".
If you are building a package with NLS, even manually, you need
gettext-devel installed for msgfmt and friends. Therefore, this is
technically not a requirement of cygport but a build requirement of your
package, just like any other lib*-devel packages that you need to build
your package.
--
Yaakov