[Bug 641423] New: 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

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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(a)redhat.com
        ReportedBy: pbonzini(a)redhat.com
         QAContact: extras-qa(a)fedoraproject.org
                CC: rjones(a)redhat.com, kalev(a)smartlink.ee,
                    fedora-mingw(a)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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           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Blocks|                            |599567

--- Comment #1 from Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini(a)redhat.com&gt; 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(a)redhat.com&gt; 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(a)redhat.com&gt; 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(a)vanpienbroek.nl&gt; 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(a)redhat.com&gt; 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
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             Status|NEW                         |CLOSED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX
               Flag|needinfo?(pbonzini(a)redhat.c |
                   |om)                         |
        Last Closed|                            |2011-06-28 07:49:43

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             Status|CLOSED                      |ASSIGNED
            Version|13                          |15
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           Keywords|                            |Reopened

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