>In the specific case you've mentioned I'd suggest that they've done
>something to wxWindows build flags rather than audacity though (if
>they've done anything. It just sounds like GTK is doing its GTK
thing).
Got the spec file from Mandrake source as you all suggested.. thanks !
Indeed, Mandrake have incorporated patches and applying these it works
sweet.
Found a similar thing with AM's kernel patches, they break NVIDIA and
distros now incorporate patches to fix the patches... which indicates to
me that distro vendors' real role has become to fixup incompatibility
issues which the developers don't have the time or resources to worry
about.. a thing which I've read that MS have spent an awful lot of
effort on ... but they had to, as their source is closed.
cheers, Rod
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On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 12:29:46PM +1100, Rod Butcher wrote:
> Sluggers, can anybody tell me how to find out what libs, compiler
> options etc went into building a binary in an rpm ? Specific example is,
> I'm trying to find out how Mandrake compiles audacity to get it to work
> with wxwindows and gnome themes, I can't.
Given just the binary RPMs I don't know of a general way. Some code will
tell you how it was built (PHP is an example that springs to mind).
In general, the best thing to do is to inspect Cooker CVS and take a
look at the spec file that created the RPM. There's often numerous
patches as well.
In the specific case you've mentioned I'd suggest that they've done
something to wxWindows build flags rather than audacity though (if
they've done anything. It just sounds like GTK is doing its GTK thing).
James.
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