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NAME:         gal
VERSION:      0.22
RELEASE:      1
SUMMARY:      The GNOME Application Library
URL:          http://www.gnome.org
DISTRIBUTION: Cygwin GNOME 1.4
VENDOR:       
LICENSE:      GPL
PACKAGER:     Hansom Young <glyoung@users.sourceforge.net>
GROUP:        System Environment/Libraries
OS:           Cygwin
ARCH:         i586
REQUIRES:     cygwin(>=1.3.17)  gtk12(>=1.2.7) gnome-vfs libiconv2 libxml
SOURCE:       ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/gal/gal-0.22.tar.gz
DESCRIPTION:  
 A collection of reuseable GNOME widgets and utility functions.
 .
 This module contains some library functions that came from Gnumeric and
 Evolution.  The idea is to reuse the code across various larger GNOME
 applications that might want to use it.


----- setup.hint ----------------------------------
@ gal
category: GNOME-libs
sdesc: "gal - The GNOME Application Library"
lsdec: "A collection of reuseable GNOME widgets and utility functions."
requires: cygwin  gtk gnome-vfs libiconv2 libxml
curr: 0.22-1
prev: 0.19-1

@ gal-devel
category: GNOME-libs GNOME-devel
sdesc: "Libraries and include files for the G App library."
lsdec: "The gal-devel package includes the static libraries and header files
for the gal package. Install gal-devel if you want to develop programs which 
will use gal. "
requires: gtk-devel gnome-vfs-devel libxml-devel
curr: 0.22-1
prev: 0.19-1
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About this Cygwin port:
-----------------------
Built with Steven O'Brian's Cygwin GNOME patches and instructions
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/steven.obrien2/.

Built on cygwin-1.3.20, with gcc-3.2, binutils-20021107, libiconv-1.8
and gtk+-1.2.10, gnome-vfs-1.0.5, libxml-1.8.17.
Not yet tested on other configuration.


Change Log
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Feb 27, 2003
    0.22  Updated to 1.0.19, built  with Steven O'Brian's patch 20030128

Sep 21, 2002
    0.19.1  Updated to 0.19.1, built from RedHat 7.3 source package,
            with Steven O'Brian's patch 20020712
            
Aug 12, 2002
    0.8     First Cygwin release, built from RedHat 7.2 source package,
            with Steven O'Brian's patch 20020624
            
            
Build gal for Cygwin:
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1. In order to build gal by yourself, you need some GNOME libraries, 
such as gtk+, libxml, gnome-vfs, etc.

The source package of GNOME libraries could be found on ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/.
Latest unstable version of gal could be found at
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/gal

Patches for Cygwin port of GNOME libraries is contributed and maintained 
by Steven O'Brian, at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/steven.obrien2/. 
The latest patch is for gal-0.22 when writing this README.

A collection of binary package of GNOME libraries built for Cygwin could 
be found on the Cygwin GNOME project http://cygnome.sourceforge.net.

2. Start building:
  - Unpack the source tarball of gal-1.0.22
  - $ patch -p1 -b < gal-0.22-cygwin.patch
  - $ CFLAGS=-O2 ./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome 
  - $ make
  - $ make DESTDIR=/some/where install

Source: gal-0.22.README, updated 2003-03-02