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Re: CALL FOR HELP : Porting to windows from Debian GNU/Linux Mingw32, status report http://introspector.sourceforge.net/dia_win32.htm



Junichi.

I need to know how to patch the code and create a 
new patch based on edits in the code. Any ideas?
(i have to go for the weekend, see you next week)
mike

--- Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp> wrote:
> 
> > > Using dpkg-architecture, 
> > > and adding support for the mingw32 port,
> > > and adding conditional portions to debian/rules to cross-build
> for
> > > some
> > > architectures would be recommended and well-known way to go, but 
> > > I don't know if that's the way you are taking.
> > 
> > I have not been able to figure out how to get the diffs running
> like
> > you have. Or at least the commands to package them.
> > 
> > Can you give me some pointers on how to handle these items? 
> 
> dpkg-source will check for existence of 
> 
> ../package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz
> when it is being invoked, and will switch modes depending on that.
> 
> 
> For example, for glib-mingw32-2.0 package version 2.0.1-6, you can
> have 
> 
> glib-mingw32-2.0_2.0.1.orig.tar.gz
> 
> and it will create
> 
> glib-mingw32-2.0_2.0.1-6.diff.gz
> glib-mingw32-2.0_2.0.1-6.dsc
> 



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James Michael DuPont
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/

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