Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
I expect the reason for the 2nd copy of everything in
/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin
is to allow people to just set $PATH to their cross-toolchain for apps
with broken build systems hardcoding tool names without the prefix.
Hard linking won't help, because when the binary is prelinked, the hardlink
will be broken.
Really we should be adding a file mingw.conf in /etc/prelink.conf.d
containing
-l /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin
So that our custom /bin directory with native binaries is processed.
but why not just create symlinks? is there anything what we can loose?
in the %install section for all files in /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin can be
a symlink.
actually it's not cause a bug, but after hardlink it's getting confusing
(i just discover this as i set the new macros and find two different bins).
from the binutils buildlog it's clear they also create link (although
hard links), but then rpm forget about it:-(
here is one such part of the build log (i check all file in
/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin are a hard link during the build process):
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mkdir -p --
/home/lfarkas/rpm/BUILDROOT/mingw32-binutils-2.18.50_20080109_2-8.fc11.i386/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin
for i in nm-new strip-new ar ranlib dlltool objdump objcopy; do \
if [ -f $i ]; then \
j=`echo $i | sed -e 's/-new//'`; \
k=`echo $j | sed 's,^,i686-pc-mingw32-,'`; \
if [ "/usr/bin/$k" != "/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin/$j" ];
then \
rm -f
/home/lfarkas/rpm/BUILDROOT/mingw32-binutils-2.18.50_20080109_2-8.fc11.i386/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin/$j;
\
ln
/home/lfarkas/rpm/BUILDROOT/mingw32-binutils-2.18.50_20080109_2-8.fc11.i386/usr/bin/$k
/home/lfarkas/rpm/BUILDROOT/mingw32-binutils-2.18.50_20080109_2-8.fc11.i386/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin/$j
/dev/null 2>/dev/null \
|| /bin/sh ./libtool
--mode=install /usr/bin/install -c
$i
/home/lfarkas/rpm/BUILDROOT/mingw32-binutils-2.18.50_20080109_2-8.fc11.i386/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin/$j;
\
fi; \
else true; \
fi; \
done
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