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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=513826 --- Comment #8 from Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]> 2009-07-28 05:14:09 EDT --- > I'm not sure if this proposal is serious or not, but > it would completely break every package in the repository. I'm sure we agreed that this bug, if it is fixed, would require changing every package in the repository. > (to work around that another change is required in the > mingw32_configure macro). No, this would be totally wrong! The configure and make phases should use exactly the same prefix that is used at run-time. > What is it that you want to archieve with these changes? All that it causes is > mass-breakage with no benefit in the end.. Many things. For example, say I'm a developer that bundles Fedora's gtk+ DLLs with his own binary. I get a report that my binary distribution does not work on Windows. I have to see if it's a problem in my code or in Fedora's. So I take the Fedora sys-root, copy it to a real Windows machine, install MSYS and try to build my package. Except that this doesn't work because the Fedora sys-root is not a sys-root (because it includes references to paths in the cross-compilation environment), so this does not work Or, avoiding that the *Windows* binaries in the sysroot include references to the /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root path. This is equivalent to having the mock-buildroot in a binary RPM, which is flagged by rpmlint as a serious error. IOW, I admire a lot the mingw32 packages and they were a useful tool for me. But independent of whether they work, unfortunately they have some flaws that are pretty fundamental and should be fixed. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ fedora-mingw mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-mingw
