Rewinding the discussion on MinGW+Wine

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 07/28/2009 03:43 PM, Erik van Pienbroek wrote:
> Op dinsdag 28-07-2009 om 15:26 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Paolo
> Bonzini:
>>   >  The best place to get this fixed would be in glib2 itself, not here.
>>
>> Sure.  But we'd have to deal with legacy packages not updating their
>> autoconf macros literally for years, and with dead packages not being
>> released anymore and keeping the old macros.
>
> For such packages an 'autoreconf' should suffice.

Should is the keyword, but fair enough.

> Nevertheless, we (the
> Fedora MinGW SIG) can't help you with getting any changes to
> the /usr/share/aclocal/glib-2.0.m4 file in the distribution.

No, I would like the Fedora MinGW packages to just work instead.  As far 
as I'm concerned, if glib-2.0.m4 works under Windows, it should work 
under Fedora MinGW32 + Wine too.

It's quite a dead end though, because right now sys-root is not a proper 
sysroot but it's hard to make it so without properly making it work in 
Libtool.  If you can fix pkg-config's naming, I'd already be grateful.

I guess all I can do is document what I did to work around behavior that 
(IMHO) is buggy, in case other people try to compile GNU Smalltalk (or 
X-Chat :-) under Fedora MinGW.

I'll also open a bug in glib/gtk to prevent them from using touch.

Paolo