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Re: Checked in a sort of 'setup.ini/setup.hint' lint script
- From: "James R. Phillips" <antiskid56-cygwin at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 09:53:11 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Checked in a sort of 'setup.ini/setup.hint' lint script
- Reply-to: antiskid56-cygwin at yahoo dot com
--- Christopher Faylor wrote:
> As the subject says, what I had in mind was a "lint" program for people
> who want to make sure that their setup.hint files are correct, i.e.,
>
> genini --output=newsetup.ini setup.ini `find octave -name 'setup.hint'
> -printf "%h\n"`
>
> You don't need a whole copy of the repository.
>
> As usual, it's a good idea to *try it* before speculating about what it
> does.
>
> cgf
>
Um, I did. And it worked in the way I described for both functions for which I
tried it. This tool can be used for more than one purpose - I think that's good.