Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
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.
i hope you see these packages:
http://mirzam.it.vu.nl/mingw/
i create packages based on these rpms for rhel too and used them for
years. packages here:
http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/
--
Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"
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