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Summary: mingw32-gcc installs files both inside and outside the sysroot
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Summary: mingw32-gcc installs files both inside and outside the sysroot Product: Fedora Version: 13 Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: medium Priority: low Component: mingw32-gcc AssignedTo: rjones@redhat.com ReportedBy: pbonzini@redhat.com QAContact: extras-qa@fedoraproject.org CC: rjones@redhat.com, kalev@smartlink.ee, fedora-mingw@lists.fedoraproject.org Classification: Fedora Target Release: ---
Description of problem: mingw32-gcc is a strange hybrid package that installs files both inside and outside the sysroot. The files in the sysroot should be separated in mingw32-libgcc.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mingw32-gcc-4.4.2-2.fc13.x86_64
Additional info: This makes the following packages depend incorrectly on mingw32-gcc: * mingw32-gettext (directly) * mingw32-pthreads (directly) * mingw32-atk (indirectly) * mingw32-glib2 (indirectly) * mingw32-gtk2 (indirectly) * mingw32-pango (indirectly)
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Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blocks| |599567
--- Comment #1 from Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com 2010-10-08 13:20:39 EDT --- Actually, splitting into mingw32-libgcc and mingw32-libgomp would be even better, see bug 599567.
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--- Comment #2 from Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com 2010-10-09 05:51:45 EDT --- Created attachment 452488 --> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=452488 prototype patch
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--- Comment #3 from Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com 2010-10-11 08:37:03 EDT --- koji scratch build from the patch at https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2527320
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--- Comment #4 from Erik van Pienbroek erik-fedora@vanpienbroek.nl 2011-01-28 13:27:19 EST --- The question with this patch is whether it is in line with the goals and packaging guidelines of the Fedora MinGW SIG. The mission mentioned at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW is:
The Fedora MinGW project's mission is to provide an excellent development environment for Fedora users who wish to cross-compile their programs to run on Windows, minimizing the need to use Windows at all.
In other words, it is targeted at developers. With your patch you're splitting the runtime and development parts apart. As all current mingw32 packages have both runtime and development parts in the same RPM (thus no -devel subpackages) I don't see why we should divert from this for the gcc package.
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--- Comment #5 from Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com 2011-01-29 09:26:33 EST --- I believe this lets other packages express their dependencies better. In particular, there is no need for libraries to depend on a compiler: they only need the runtime libraries of the compiler. gtk+ and SDL should not be different in this respect: either both should depend on a compiler or none should. The fact that gtk+ indirectly uses the pthreads emulation library doesn't change anything.
In short, Fedora devel packages never require a compiler, but a few mingw32 packages do. For this reason, I believe the fact that MinGW packages are always -devel packages is irrelevant.
As an aside, I don't believe the MinGW SIG mission totally excludes the presence of -devel package. Separating them would still be very useful, because it would distinguish files that need to be deployed on Windows, and files that are for development only. This is on the hypothesis that those Fedora users also need to distribute their applications after having cross-compiled them. :)
In order to automate the distribution task, I'm leveraging RPM package dependencies to list what needs to be deployed on Windows, and then make self-contained application installers. Having separate -devel packages would be nicer for me, because I would have an easy way to know what has to be deployed on Windows, and what is for development only. However, I understand that it would be a big change and I can live without it.
This leads back to the rationale behind reporting this bug. If the cross-compiled product depends on files outside the sysroot, that should be a fatal error, because this would be a dependency on something available on Linux only. Currently I have to ignore them and eliminate a possibly useful diagnostic, so I opened this bug.
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What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |CLOSED Resolution| |WONTFIX Flag|needinfo?(pbonzini@redhat.c | |om) | Last Closed| |2011-06-28 07:49:43
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Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|CLOSED |ASSIGNED Version|13 |15 Resolution|WONTFIX | Keywords| |Reopened
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What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |pbonzini@redhat.com Version|15 |rawhide
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