On 23/02/2025 07:05, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
Hi Jon,
I just found on one of the python cygport's I took from Yaakov
the usage of REQUIRES_EXCLUDE_FROM, but the documentation
has nothing about it.
I think will be useful to add some info on documentation before we waste
time reinventing the wheel to remove "unwanted/optional" dependencies
$ grep -rH REQUIRES_EXCLUDE .
./lib/pkg_info.cygpart: for d in ${REQUIRES_EXCLUDE_FROM//:/ }
it is used in the "__list_deps() " function
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for d in ${REQUIRES_EXCLUDE_FROM//:/ }
do
deps_prune+=" -o -path ${d#/} -prune"
done
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Oh! Thanks very much for pointing this out!
I was thinking about how to implement this, given some recent
discussions, and I think this is the better approach ("exclude certain
paths from the dependency check", rather than "exclude certain
dependencies from the requires output") since it's a lot less brittle in
the face of changes.
I've added some brief documentation for this, which should appear in the
next release.
REQUIRES_EXCLUDE_FROM
DESCRIPTION
A colon-separated list of pathname globs, which are excluded from automatic dependency detection.
Additional issue:
the cygport package page
https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/cygport-src.html
is reporting www.cygwin.com as Homepage , but should not be
https://cygwin.com/git/cygwin-apps/cygport.git ?
It took some moments to find the repository
Due to some other reorganization I did of the website, cygport actually
has a homepage now at:
https://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/cygport.html
... so I'll change this to point there.
