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Re: Compiled several libraries not in setup
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit at familiehaase dot de>
- To: Heath Raftery <hraftery at myrealbox dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 16:12:52 +0100
- Subject: Re: Compiled several libraries not in setup
- Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
- References: <3FA5D7B8.6080407@myrealbox.com>
- Reply-to: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit at familiehaase dot de>
Hello Heath,
Monday, November 3, 2003, 5:21:12 AM, you wrote:
> After a non-trivial amount of mucking around, I've managed to compile
> several libraries in cygwin, which weren't in the Setup program. I
> installed them to compile centericq, but I'm sure they have other uses
> too. I think the list is:
> libgcrypt
> libgcrypt-pthread
> libgnutls
> libgnutls-extra
> libgpg-error
> liblzo
> libopencdk
> libtasn1
> libtiff
> libz
libtiff and libz are available, though the names are tiff and zlib for the
Cygwin packages.
> It would take me some time to go through again and document and test the
> changes I had to make to the source, configure and install scripts, so I
> wonder if it would be of use to the cygwin community to do so. If it
> saves someone else the time it took me the first time, I think it would
> be worthwhile. What is the general procedure here?
Please see: http://cygwin.com/setup.html for a detailed guide how to become
a package maintainer.
--
Best regards,
Gerrit
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