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

Farkas Levente lfarkas at lfarkas.org
Tue Jun 16 16:07:10 UTC 2009


Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> 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.

why maintain 3 spec file for eg mingw32-zlib which are exactly identical
on all platform or even a for cycle would be enough in the build
section. it keeps simple clean and easier to maintain these even now too
much packages.

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  Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"



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