Hello Charles, * Charles Wilson wrote on Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 04:31:11AM CEST: > But at least that's less invasive (in terms of the patch upstream > projects would have to accept to their Makefile.am's) than all-custom.
IIRC this problem affected something like 4 or 5 packages in the whole Cygwin tree, and can be worked around by providing manifests for installed programs, and renaming uninstalled ones (and using $(transform) to rename back upon installation). It is not a pressing problem by any measure, and not *the* problem where minimizing invasiveness is paramount. OTOH it is one making head hurt with API uglicity and awkwardness. I don't want to sound pejorative or shoot this down, just get those priorities right among the list of things to do. Thanks, Ralf
