Re: [MiNT] MiNTLib 2000

[Guido Flohr <guido@freemint.de>]

Hi,

an addendum to the previous posting: Frank was very quick, the precompiled
MiNTLibs are already available as rpm packages (at least on the Sparemint
"home" server, the mirrors will probably have them by tomorrow).

Just a reminder: Everybody (also non-programmers) need the package
"mintlib" (although non-programmers don't need to update that package).
The actual library and the header files are in "mintlib-devel".  Special
purpose libraries are in "mintlib-mshort", "mintlib-profile" and
"mintlib-debug" and you normally don't need them.

If you install the MiNTLib rpms you may see a lot of conflicts (and rpm
will refuse to install the package then).  These conflicts are all real,
you remember that the MiNTLib is binary incompatible with older versions
and so are libraries that were compiled with old header files.  However,
if you want to fix the conflicts and missing dependencies later you can
force the installation with "rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps" but don't forget
to update the other library packages before you use them again.

Some conflicts that actually exist have been omitted for convenience.  One
example is the binutils that contain a library (libbfd.a) that will not
work with the new MiNTLib.  But we wanted to avoid that people are forced
to download the huge binutils package just for the sake of a library that
they most probably never use (I only know one user of libbfd for MiNT).

Ciao

Guido
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