Re: slrn on Cygwin makefile bug

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:00:58AM -0400, Rudy Taraschi wrote:
> Brian Salter-Duke <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > It works for me except for one small problem. On cygwin, "INSTALL' and
> > "install" are the same. You have to mv INSTALL to INSTALL.txt to make
> > "make install" work and not say it is up to date. That file should be
> > renamed in the release.
> 
> The problem you mention is common to pretty much every Cygwin package
> that's built from source; a file named INSTALL, like README, is
> standard in many source tarballs.  While your solution works
> perfectly, it's not the "right" solution.  I get around the problem to
> same way you do BTW.

What is the right solution?
 
> > It also has a small bug in it. /doc/INSTALL.unx should be
> > /doc/INSTALL.unix.
> 
> Been like that forever - again, other packages besides slrn use this
> same naming convention

I do not understand. The file is actually called /doc/INSTALL.unix and
the INSTALL file calls it /doc/INSTALL.unx. That seems a small bug to me
that should be corrected.
 
> > What has to be done to get slrn part of the standard cygwin releases?
> 
> Simple - someone has to step up and volunteer to be the official
> maintainer.  IIRC correctly, that also means being the slrn support
> person on the Cygwin mailing list.

I could probably do the former but I doubt I know enough about slrn for
the latter. 

Cheers, Brian.
 
> Cheers!
> 
> /rudy

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