Mac OS X cross-compiler coming soon to a Fedora near you (or maybe not?)

[Kevin Kofler]

Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> As Dan says it's somewhat academic if we can't add the compiler(s) to
> Fedora.

Indeed. The required MacOS X SDK cannot be distributed in Fedora, if at all.
(Apple allows downloading it only with a registration, so are you sure they
allow redistributing it at all? It cannot go even into RPM Fusion if it cannot
be redistributed!)

> But we did come up with a coherent plan for how to do this: 
> 
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fedora-mingw/2009-February/000464.html
> 
> (see also the following messages).

That sounds like a bad plan. The targets don't have any more in common than
they do with the native version. It makes sense to keep them in separate SRPMs
for the same reason it makes sense to keep them separate from the native
package.

I don't see a problem with building mingw64-* from mingw32-* SRPMs or the
opposite, as that's the same target OS, just on different hardware platforms,
but building darwinx-* from the same SRPM as mingw* sounds very artificial to
me. They're likely to need different patches, dependencies etc.

        Kevin Kofler