From: sos AT buggy DOT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: Beta 19 status
15 Feb 1998 01:25:42 -0800
Message-ID: <01BD3A0B.77170310.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@sos>
Reply-To: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com
To: "'cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com'" <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>
Cc: Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com>

Geoffrey Noer wrote:
> 3) Build less/ncurses/man natively since they can't be cross-built
> and include them???  Alternatively, they could go into a tarball people
> can make available later.  Do the tools have to be in binary mode for
> less to work correctly?

Less linked with libtermcap works on any types of mounts, I'm not sure 
about a correct work of terminfo on text mounts.

> 	devo.tar.bz2		-- semi-final comp tools sources
> 	user-tools.tar.bz2	-- semi-final user tools sources
> 	win32native-opt-980213.tar.bz
> 				-- binaries with optimization/debugging
>
> Note that I upgraded fileutils and tar since the last snapshot
> I gave you.

Makefile.in in fileutils/lib expects presence of interlock and ylwrap in 
the current directory instead of srcdir. Because of this build in separate 
source and oject trees fails.

Configure in gzip doesn't set variable X in Makefile to ".exe".

Tar/lib/Makefile.in tries to put generated getdate.c into srcdir instead of 
current dir. This fails if source tree is read-only.
Configure in tar doesn't substitute @AR@ in intl/Makefile.

Top-level install-sh doesn't handles .exe extensions properly.

--- install-sh	Wed Jul 16 01:33:52 1997
+++ E:\usr\H-i386-cygwin32\bin\install-sh	Fri Nov 07 19:40:04 1997
@@ -142,14 +142,13 @@
 # whether asked for or not.  This breaks installs.  The following
 # changes the value of $src to $src.exe if $src is missing

-	if [ -f $src ]
-	then
-		true
-	elif [ -f $src.exe ]
-	then
-		echo "install:  $src does not exist, trying with .exe appended"
-		src="$src".exe
-	fi
+        if [ -f $src -a ! -f $src.exe ] 
+        then 
+                true 
+        else 
+                echo "install:  $src does not exist, trying with .exe 
appended"
+                src="$src".exe 
+        fi 

 # end CYGNUS LOCAL noer



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