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Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 03:33:46 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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AFAIK, setup doesn't handle "buildRequires".  What I've been doing is to 
only list runtime dependencies for the binary package in the Requires: 
line, and then just mention the buildtime requirements in the readme.

e.g. you don't list gcc/binutils in the Requires: line of every package.

--Chuck

Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:

>>Are you kidding?  Cygwin-Man is the COOLEST!  
>>
> 
> And would make a great mascot!
> 
> 
>>Truth, Justice, and the American Way, my friend.  Truth, Justice, and the
>>American Way.
>>
> 
> Just think of it this way: instead of just some 'man' now we've got a
> 'doc'. Hmmm... I wonder if people are going to think this is a Cygwin
> version of DrWatson.
> 
> OK, my last question was pretty obvious, but how about this one:
> The -src package here contains perl scripts. Is there any way to have
> (just) it 'depend' on perl? Or at least warn people beforehand that 
> they'll need perl to remake the man pages?
> 
> setup.hint:
> 
> sdesc: "Cygwin-specific man-pages for utilities and functions"
> ldesc: "The intro.1 and intro.3 man pages for Cygwin. Also includes
> autogenerated, man-formatted versions of the cygwin documentation 
> available online at
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html
> and
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/cygwin-api.html"
> category: Doc
> requires: cygwin man
> 
> http://ns1.iocc.com/~joshua/cygwin/cygwin-doc-1.0-1.tar.bz2
> http://ns1.iocc.com/~joshua/cygwin/cygwin-doc-1.0-1-src.tar.bz2
> 
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