mingw32-filesystem, mingw32-w32api, mingw32-runtime

Farkas Levente lfarkas at lfarkas.org
Thu Dec 18 11:03:55 UTC 2008


Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> I think that the reason is basically the w32api and mingwrt package
>> where make install does not honour DESTDIR setting. Find attached two
>> patches that will make that DESTDIR to be respected.
>>
>> Also, I sent a proposed (IMHO better) mingw32 macros files. Note that
>> the CLASSPATH variable is not useful for you people if you don't
>> distribute the mingw32-gcc-java cross-compiler that I personally use for
>> building of some java bindings of my private libraries. But the
>> _mingw32_make and _mingw32_makeinstall macros could be considered I
>> guess. I even make the mingw32-make symlink because several non-libtool
>> applications cross-compile much better using mingw32-make which sets all
>> the needed env variables.

it's a good question which is the better _mingw32_makeinstall your
(which is recommended by the fedora packaging guide) the the old one
which is similar to the original rpm's _makeinstall macro...
actually i don't know i just would like to confirm to the base system.

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  Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"



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