Re: Rewinding the discussion on MinGW+Wine
Op dinsdag 28-07-2009 om 11:19 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Paolo
Bonzini:
>> AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0 will detect mismatched header files vs.
>> installed libraries, while PKG_CHECK_MODULES, so your solution is not
>> 100% equivalent.
>
> So far, in us packaging about 100 packages (many dependent on glib),
> this has not proved a problem.
Because you do not have Wine installed, so that check is not run. A
user (not a fedora packager) will have it 99% of the time.
That's strange. I do have wine installed here (with the binfmt stuff
enabled) and I've never seen that behaviour when using ./configure
--host=i686-pc-mingw32
> There's no issue with mismatching headers and libraries
because
> everything is installed via RPM.
If you do not fix bug 513825, the configure script will get the Linux
pkg-config, not the cross pkg-config. Then it will definitely report
(if you have Wine installed, and with today's Fedora 11) mismatched
headers and libraries.
The rename of mingw32-pkg-config to i686-pc-mingw32-pkg-config is
something I think we all agree of. However, we don't have any influence
on the contents of the .pc files produced by packages. To get the
sysroot part operational we need a lot of manual fiddling in all
generated .pc files and a fully coordinated mass-rebuild. Both of which
I'm sure the Fedora-MinGW32 packages aren't really interested in. And
even if we have prepared all the packages and done a mass-rebuild, it'll
still be a pain in the ass to maintain as it's easy to break or to
forget to patch new .pc files.
Regards,
Erik van Pienbroek