Re: std library - poco compilation problem mingw - fedora10

On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 10:35:17AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: I had a closer look at Poco, and the problem is the latter: Poco have made the mistake of beliving that they can hand-roll a build system which is better than autoconf, and as with everyone who tries that they've ended up with something which is both worse and unfamiliar. (Still, at least it's not as bad as what Boost did. Oh my, their hand-rolled build system is a tremendous example of fail). This was my best shot at a patch for Poco 'economy' 1.3.3p1: (a) Copy build/config/MinGW to build/config/MinGW-cross (b) Apply the attached patches, in order (c) ./configure --config=MinGW-cross (d) make (This builds plausible-looking DLLs and binaries - I didn't test whether they worked.) **Please submit the patches back** to Poco's upstream for inclusion in future releases. Since Poco is a development tool / library under a free license, this is something that is suitable for inclusion in the Fedora MinGW project. You would need to get sponsored[1] if you aren't already, and submit a review request[2] for it. This way, we can share maintenance tasks for it, and you get a supported, up to date version in Fedora itself. Rich. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/HowToGetSponsored [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones Read my OCaml programming blog: http://camltastic.blogspot.com/ Fedora now supports 68 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora