gtk2 on epel won't be easy

[Daniel P. Berrange]

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.

Daniel
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