Re: [ITP] mingw-w64

[Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>]

As an aside, to compile with a different prefix using cygport requires a 
bit of work right now, because AFAIK cygport doesn't support anything 
but --prefix=/usr.

See
http://cygwin.osuosl.org/release/autoconf/gcc-tools-epoch2-autoconf/gcc-tools-epoch2-autoconf-2.64-1-src.tar.bz2

for how I did it. Basically I had to copy cygport's cygconf() function 
and modify it, ditto cygports cyginstall() function.  Then, from my 
src_compile() and src_install() I called my copies.

That's what was needed to put autoconf into /opt/gcc-tools/epoch2/ but 
other, more complex packages -- and they don't get much more complex 
that gcc! -- might need even more custom overrides.



P.S. Hey, Yaakov -- any chance cygport could start supporting custom 
prefixes?  Maybe by inheriting some special cygclass?

--
Chuck