Re: [patch] cygport-0.2.7 hooks for additional prep, install customization

2007-01-12 Thread Charles Wilson
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Could you please provide a sample .cygport showing what would be accomplished with this? Well, there's the src_prep_init|fini_hook example used in the jpeg.cygport (from the mixed-mode-demo tarball). Again, the extra SRC_URIs are all unpacked automatically by cyg

Re: [patch] cygport-0.2.7 hooks for additional prep, install customization

2007-01-12 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Charles Wilson wrote: > [implementation details] > [1] Possibiliyt: remove the readonly protection on the existing, > internal, automation functions (like __prep_installdir or src_prep). > This is a really bad idea: some of these functions (especiall

[patch] cygport-0.2.7 hooks for additional prep, install customization

2007-01-05 Thread Charles Wilson
Cygport automates many of the tedious steps of the build process for cygwin ports (and that's a GOOD thing). However, at present there are cases when the existing customization/extension points provided by cygport are not sufficient -- the user needs to intervene before/after/during some of th