Re: Stripping cygnus insight
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:45:11 Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> > rm -rf tcl tk itcl itk ...
>
> Good question. I would say yes. How much space does that crap suck?
>
It's not crap :) The thing is cygnus hacked them to conform to their many ports
including cygwin. But it's their mistake to include it in a source dir of course.
They must have made them into separate distributions. (I'm talking about insight BTW)
Takes over 20M uncompressed... I'll strip more than 1/4th of code, so it's
a nice thing to do.
> > This would OTOH make it impossible to build the orig.tar.gz without my
> > patches. So this corrupts the semantics of 'orig.tar.gz'. What should I do?
>
> Submit the patch upstream and ask if they can include it so one can build
> the package with itcl, tcl, tk etc. already installed.
>
Looks right to me, then they can perhaps provide a stripped version also.
It looks as if you could build it stand-alone, but then they forgot about
that and hardwired ../itcl in some places
> Yes. Don't do it :)
>
> If they are ready I will gladly check them and upload them for you *eg*
>
I've still some problems with itcl, but it's going ok. I'm having to go
through cygnus configure systems. And of course they're using a lot of
CY_AC_* :)
Thanks,
--
Eray (exa) Ozkural
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
e-mail: erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr
www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo
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