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Soren

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Apr 1, 2026, 9:21:38 PM (10 days ago) Apr 1
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Hello (again); I wrote previously:
>  I want to build on one system running Cygwin and make a .zip or tarball that I can then use to install on other machines. I'm stuck about how to do this.

Ok, ahem. I was stuck until I looked in the pkgscripts/ subdir, which I thought I had looked at carefully before. PEBKAC, it happens. There's a script in there named maketarball. That's awfully obvious. I wondered how to get that script to run, though. I figured telling *make* what I wanted would be a wise move, and in a burst of fortunate inspiration (blind luck) I typed "make tarball" and it did exactly what I wanted. It's a little like Gandalf at the doors of Moria trying to figure out the magic words to make them open. "Speak 'friend' and Enter". 'Too simple for a learned loremaster in these difficult times' or something like that. If a reader doesn't get the LotR reference, just say I was looking for something complicated and subtle when the solution was obvious and simple.

Cheers - keep on working on jpeg-turbo
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Soren Andersen

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Apr 2, 2026, 2:43:35 PM (9 days ago) Apr 2
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Sorry for the delay.  I got buried with the 3.1.4 and 3.2 beta1 releases.  Glad you were able to figure it out.

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