strange mingw32-runtime-3.15.1-1 build error (imho it's a bug)

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Wed Nov 19 20:01:52 UTC 2008


On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 08:59:18PM +0100, Farkas Levente wrote:
> i'm not rally understand you. without the bootstrap packages how can you
> build mingw32-runtime in mock?

By copying the built mingw32-w32api / mingw32-runtime binary RPMs from
another machine.  They are 'noarch' so that even works for
bootstrapping ppc and other non-x86 platforms.

But if we need to build the *-bootstrap packages for rel-eng we can do
that later, if they want it.

Rich.

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