Re: [Dev-C++] Compiling cygwin
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 09:54:53AM +0200, Jean-Michel POURE wrote:
>Le Jeudi 9 Mai 2002 23:52, Robert Collins a ?crit :
>> I don't understand this. All of the above is trivial with the cygwin
>> setup.exe tool. It's nearly 100% data driven, and certainly can be
>> forked and rebranded easily. (See
>> http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html). But if you want to
>> make a new wheel, go ahead.
>
>Cygwin setup.exe has no dependency checking :
>- between Cygwin packages,
>- between a package and cygwin.dll.
Um, yes it does.
>Therefore, you cannot just install PostgreSQL and the required packages
>easily. Furthermore, Cygwin does not allow the installation of Windows native
>packages, i.e. Apache 2.0.
Yes, you can. There are several packages which contain non-cygwin executables.
>Therefore, I think a possible solution would be migrating dpkg to native
>Windows using mingw, then create a W32/Debian Cygwin package (=get rid of
>this horrible setup.exe) and work on Perl installation scripts like fink.
I sure hope you won't be setting the tone for this project. Using adjectives
like "horrible" won't really help you gather support from current cygwin
developers.
Or maybe you don't want that.
cgf
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