On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 02:30:10PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 10:15:54PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > I've got a self-building, mostly working set of Fedora packages for > > the MinGW cross-compiler (no optional libraries yet). You can get the > > spec files and instructions by doing: > > > > hg clone http://hg.et.redhat.com/misc/fedora-mingw--devel > > What primarily concerns me is that plan around keeping this in sync > with patches/updates to the main gcc, binutils, libpng, libgcrypt, > gnutls, etc RPMS already in Fedora. > > The idea of maintaining 2 near identical specs & builds for all these > packages isn't that nice, particularly since many of these are security > sensitive packages So there's a bit of confusion going around, partly my own. Mingw-binutils (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454408) starts with a forked version of binutils maintained by mingw. They have their own release schedule for this so I'm not sure how viable it is to have a single binutils SPEC file generating both the normal binutils and a 'binutils-mingw' subpackage. (Ignoring for now whether or not the Fedora binutils maintainer is even interested in this). Mingw-gcc (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454410) starts from plain gcc 4.3.1 source, so combining these into Fedora's gcc package might be more hopeful. However there are some nasty dependencies (mingw-runtime and mingw-w32api, neither of which can be built ab initio because of circular dependencies) and I suspect that any time there is any sort of mingw related trouble with this package, the gcc-mingw subpackage will be the first to be dropped. I don't want this. As for the remainder we get into asking question like -- should we generate the mingw-gnutls library (as an example) from the main gnutls SPEC file? There are going to be dozens of such libraries and we'll have to coordinate with a large number of existing Fedora contributors to make this happen. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
