Discussion:
[privoxy-devel] [privoxy-commits] current TODO,1.139,1.140
Lee
2016-01-21 15:00:34 UTC
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+ 147) Improve "Building from Source" section in the user manual.
+ A common problem seems to be that it's not obvious to non-technical
+ users how the listed dependencies can be installed on the commonly
+ used platforms. Adding a couple of examples should also be useful for
+ technical users (like Privoxy developers) who want to install or test
+ Privoxy on platforms they are not familiar with.
Building from source on Windows using Cygwin requires requires an old,
unsupported version of cygwin. Tips/hints on where to begin making
the changes required to do cross-compiling - eg
autoheader
autoconf
./configure --build=i686-pc-cygwin --host=i686-pc-mingw32
make
would be appreciated

Lee
Fabian Keil
2016-01-21 15:39:09 UTC
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Post by Lee
+ 147) Improve "Building from Source" section in the user manual.
+ A common problem seems to be that it's not obvious to non-technical
+ users how the listed dependencies can be installed on the commonly
+ used platforms. Adding a couple of examples should also be useful for
+ technical users (like Privoxy developers) who want to install or test
+ Privoxy on platforms they are not familiar with.
Building from source on Windows using Cygwin requires requires an old,
unsupported version of cygwin. Tips/hints on where to begin making
the changes required to do cross-compiling - eg
autoheader
autoconf
./configure --build=i686-pc-cygwin --host=i686-pc-mingw32
make
would be appreciated
This should probably be documented at the end of:
doc/source/buildsource.sgml
which is included when building README, INSTALL and the user manual.

Fabian
Lee
2016-01-21 15:56:22 UTC
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Post by Fabian Keil
Post by Lee
+ 147) Improve "Building from Source" section in the user manual.
+ A common problem seems to be that it's not obvious to non-technical
+ users how the listed dependencies can be installed on the commonly
+ used platforms. Adding a couple of examples should also be useful for
+ technical users (like Privoxy developers) who want to install or test
+ Privoxy on platforms they are not familiar with.
Building from source on Windows using Cygwin requires requires an old,
unsupported version of cygwin. Tips/hints on where to begin making
the changes required to do cross-compiling - eg
autoheader
autoconf
./configure --build=i686-pc-cygwin --host=i686-pc-mingw32
make
would be appreciated
doc/source/buildsource.sgml
which is included when building README, INSTALL and the user manual.
Which "this"? The request for help on how to get the windows build
working with the current cygwin or the instructions I sent out a few
days ago on how to how to build Privoxy on cygwin 1.5?

Lee
Fabian Keil
2016-01-21 16:17:19 UTC
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Post by Lee
Post by Fabian Keil
Post by Lee
+ 147) Improve "Building from Source" section in the user manual.
+ A common problem seems to be that it's not obvious to non-technical
+ users how the listed dependencies can be installed on the commonly
+ used platforms. Adding a couple of examples should also be useful for
+ technical users (like Privoxy developers) who want to install or test
+ Privoxy on platforms they are not familiar with.
Building from source on Windows using Cygwin requires requires an old,
unsupported version of cygwin. Tips/hints on where to begin making
the changes required to do cross-compiling - eg
autoheader
autoconf
./configure --build=i686-pc-cygwin --host=i686-pc-mingw32
make
would be appreciated
doc/source/buildsource.sgml
which is included when building README, INSTALL and the user manual.
Which "this"? The request for help on how to get the windows build
working with the current cygwin or the instructions I sent out a few
days ago on how to how to build Privoxy on cygwin 1.5?
While I was referring to the instructions to build Privoxy on cygwin 1.5
(or any other version that is known to work), I think a request for help
with getting Privoxy to build with a recent cygwin version could be added
there, too.

Fabian
Lee
2016-01-21 16:49:42 UTC
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Post by Fabian Keil
Post by Lee
Post by Fabian Keil
Post by Lee
+ 147) Improve "Building from Source" section in the user manual.
+ A common problem seems to be that it's not obvious to non-technical
+ users how the listed dependencies can be installed on the commonly
+ used platforms. Adding a couple of examples should also be
useful
for
+ technical users (like Privoxy developers) who want to install
or
test
+ Privoxy on platforms they are not familiar with.
Building from source on Windows using Cygwin requires requires an old,
unsupported version of cygwin. Tips/hints on where to begin making
the changes required to do cross-compiling - eg
autoheader
autoconf
./configure --build=i686-pc-cygwin --host=i686-pc-mingw32
make
would be appreciated
doc/source/buildsource.sgml
which is included when building README, INSTALL and the user manual.
Which "this"? The request for help on how to get the windows build
working with the current cygwin or the instructions I sent out a few
days ago on how to how to build Privoxy on cygwin 1.5?
While I was referring to the instructions to build Privoxy on cygwin 1.5
(or any other version that is known to work), I think a request for help
with getting Privoxy to build with a recent cygwin version could be added
there, too.
The windows specific instructions don't really seem to belong in
doc/source/buildsource.sgml

How about if I update the "Build using cygwin" section in
developer-manual.sgml (which looks to still be correct except for the
'Get the cygwin setup program from' link ) and add a 'todo' item for
updating the code to support cross-system (or is it cross-compiler?)
builds?

Lee
Fabian Keil
2016-01-21 17:19:21 UTC
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Post by Lee
Post by Fabian Keil
Post by Lee
Post by Fabian Keil
Post by Lee
+ 147) Improve "Building from Source" section in the user manual.
+ A common problem seems to be that it's not obvious to non-technical
+ users how the listed dependencies can be installed on the commonly
+ used platforms. Adding a couple of examples should also be
useful
for
+ technical users (like Privoxy developers) who want to install
or
test
+ Privoxy on platforms they are not familiar with.
Building from source on Windows using Cygwin requires requires an old,
unsupported version of cygwin. Tips/hints on where to begin making
the changes required to do cross-compiling - eg
autoheader
autoconf
./configure --build=i686-pc-cygwin --host=i686-pc-mingw32
make
would be appreciated
doc/source/buildsource.sgml
which is included when building README, INSTALL and the user manual.
Which "this"? The request for help on how to get the windows build
working with the current cygwin or the instructions I sent out a few
days ago on how to how to build Privoxy on cygwin 1.5?
While I was referring to the instructions to build Privoxy on cygwin 1.5
(or any other version that is known to work), I think a request for help
with getting Privoxy to build with a recent cygwin version could be added
there, too.
The windows specific instructions don't really seem to belong in
doc/source/buildsource.sgml
I don't see why not.
Post by Lee
How about if I update the "Build using cygwin" section in
developer-manual.sgml (which looks to still be correct except for the
'Get the cygwin setup program from' link )
That's fine with me, too.
Post by Lee
and add a 'todo' item for
updating the code to support cross-system (or is it cross-compiler?)
builds?
Both should already be supported in general. Having a TODO item for
builds with recent cygwin version seems reasonable to me, though.

Fabian

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