gtk2 on epel won't be easy

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 02:38:16PM +0100, Farkas Levente wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 01:52:08PM +0100, Farkas Levente wrote:
> >> hi,
> >> i try to build gtk2 (and it's requirements) for epel, but there is a big
> >> problem that many packages require automake-1.10 which is on fedora but
> >> not on rhel-5:-(
> >> so for the moment i give it up this part of the packages.
> > 
> > To be honest I don't really see the point in rebuilding  this using
> > EPEL. Since mingw is a cross-compile, whatever distro is used for the
> > host OS should not materially impact the resulting binaries. So ignoring
> > the lack of automake, if you build the same version of mingw-gtk2 on 
> > Fedora 8, Fedora 9, Fedora 10, EPEL-5 the resulting DLL should  be the
> > same.
> > 
> > Building stuff on EPEL only makes sense if you are going to build the
> > actual version of GTK from EPEL-5 for mingw. Rebuilding the Fedora 9
> > version of GTK on EPEL-5 for mingw just seems like a waste of time.
> 
> the problem comes when we've got an epel build host which create all
> packages (linux, windows, etc). in this case i'd like to use (and build)
> mingw32 on epel.

You shouldn't do builds based on the host OS packages. If you use mock
then you can use a CentOS/RHEL5 build host, and make mingw packages using
a Fedora 9 based mock config. So no need to actually build anything against
RHEL5 packages

Daniel
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