Exim

Pierre A. Humblet Pierre.Humblet@ieee.org
Fri Aug 30 07:47:00 GMT 2002


Jason Tishler wrote:
> 
>     3. move exim-4.10-1.patch from . to exim-4.10-1/CYGWIN-PATCHES
> 
OK with me, but that's contrary to the recommendations...

Pierre

http://cygwin.com/setup.html#package_contents

Optionally, this patch could also unpack inside the source tree: 

  boffo-1.0-1/README
  boffo-1.0-1/configure
  boffo-1.0-1/CYGWIN-PATCHES/boffo-1.0-1.patch
  etc...

However, that tends to complicate actually creating the patch itself. 
Unless one enjoys recursion, one must move the .patch file OUT of the 
source tree, regenerate the patch to incorporate any new changes, and 
then copy the new patch back into .../CYGWIN-PATCHES/. This option 
is documented because some existing packages do it this way, but it 
is not recommended for new packages. Make boffo-1.0-1.patch a 
top-level member of the -src tarball instead: 
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