cygwin qt port- do I have to apply patches or something?

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 3/31/2010 7:48 PM, mike marchywka wrote:
> I went ahead and applied the patches and configure at least
> seems to run. I just assumed the patch files were for reference,
> shouldn't the source be patched when downloaded or is there
> a reason for this ( or do I have a larger fundamental problem and
> applying these patches just lets configure run longer)?

When patches are included you can assume:

   1. The original pristine sources from upstream are included.

   2. Any patches provided need to be applied to the pristine
      source to get things building for Cygwin.

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