gtk2 on epel won't be easy

[Farkas Levente]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 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.

the problem comes when we've got an epel build host which create all
packages (linux, windows, etc). in this case i'd like to use (and build)
mingw32 on epel.

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  Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"