Build failures mingw unable to pass sanity checks

[Adam Stokes]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Erik van Pienbroek
<erik at vanpienbroek.nl> wrote:
> Erik van Pienbroek schreef op di 22-11-2011 om 15:21 [+0100]:
>> adam stokes schreef op di 22-11-2011 om 09:05 [-0500]:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm attempting to build a package with mingw toolchain and have been
>> > receiving this message. Prior to this builds were working just fine so
>> > and all of our builds go through mock to make sure there are no
>> > conflicts. Any idea why mingw32 is failing to build their sanity check
>> > program?
>>
>> Hi Adam,
>>
>> Kai Tietz already asked me about this build failure earlier today.
>> In order to further investigate this I need a bit more information:
>> - I see you're trying to build a new release of the mingw32-matahari
>> package. Is the SRPM available somewhere? (Could you please send it to
>> me?)
>> - For which mock target/Fedora release are you trying to build this
>> package?
>> - Is this error triggered by a local mock build or a koji mock build?
>>
>> There has been a change in the mingw32-filesystem package recently
>> regarding CMake builds, it might be related:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753906
>
> Now that I think about it: I remember that while building
> mingw32-matahari against the mingw-w64 toolchain (testing repo) I
> encountered strange build issues as well.
>
> It turned out that the latest version of CMake which was in rawhide at
> that moment (2.8.6-something) contained a regression so I decided to
> downgrade to cmake 2.8.5-3.fc16 for the time being. This version of
> CMake can be used to build mingw32-matahari successfully for mingw-w64.
>
> I don't know if the latest version of CMake in rawhide is still broken,
> but perhaps you got caught by this regression as well.
>

I think in both cases it is considered locally building since our
autobuild system does a checkout and mock build rather than doing any
builds through koji.

We are building against fedora 16 and I see it is using 2.8.5-3.fc16

For your convenience I put up an srpm at
http://astokes.fedorapeople.org/mingw32-matahari/

Thanks!