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:-(
> 
> Also note to build mingw-gtk2 you need to have already built the same 
> version of gtk2 natively, becuase the cross-compile build process
> needs various native gtk tools to generate code. So you really need
> to build mingw-gtk2 version which matches the gtk in RHEL5, at which
> point the automake version is a non-issue, because older gtk2 will
> work fine with the older automake in RHEL5

i didn't realize it until now, but this means that most spec file should
have to be modified to require versioned native libraries eg: in stead of:
BuildRequires:  glib2-devel
put
BuildRequires:  glib2-devel = %{version}
or
BuildRequires:  glib2-devel >= %{version}
since currently mingw32-glib2 compile without any problem with older
glib2-devel host packages.

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