Re: Stripping cygnus insight
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 06:19:54PM +0300, Eray Ozkural wrote:
> 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)
Perhaps someone can arrange that those changes migrate upstream and insight
get's lose of this cruft? Okay, we all have too little time :(
> Takes over 20M uncompressed... I'll strip more than 1/4th of code, so it's
> a nice thing to do.
... and there are 15MB left. Jesus! Is that all source code?
> > 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
GACK! Cygnus should really know better...
> 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_* :)
Hmm, perhaps they should forward their macros to the autoconf creators ;-))
cu
Torsten
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