filesystem patch

Farkas Levente lfarkas at lfarkas.org
Wed Jan 28 23:47:00 UTC 2009


Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:04:53AM +0100, Farkas Levente wrote:
>> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 09:09:16PM +0100, Farkas Levente wrote:
>>>> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 04:53:40PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 03:09:22PM +0100, Farkas Levente wrote:
>>>>>>> hi,
>>>>>>> as i previously send it (i just update it and resend) i agree with dan's
>>>>>>> comment so i remove params from mingw32_make.
>>>>>>> devel branch is enough for this.
>>>>>> ACK.
>>>>> Although I'm still questioning why we need _mingw32_make at all ...
>>>> to be able to use the same source (ie. mingw32-macros.mingw32) and have
>>>> to edit it one place, for all helper scripts (ie. mingw32-configure
>>>> mingw32-make).
>>> No, no, I mean why do we need a make macro or script at all?
>>>
>>> The GNU coding standards define that this will work in all circumstances:
>>>
>>>   ./configure --lots-of-options
>>>   make
>>>
>>> where options on the ./configure command line are turned into defaults
>>> for make.
>> suppose you make some cross compilation development. everywhere you put
>> %{_mingw32_make} into the spec file but wouldn't like to always run it
>> through rpmbuild you can use mingw32-make in the working directory.
> 
> No, I don't mean this.  Why don't we remove both the _mingw32_make
> macro and the mingw32-make script?  Any usage of this macro/script
> would be replaced by a simple 'make' command.

not all projects use gnu toolchain:-(

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