Re: [MiNT] Pilot link

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:28:40 , Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 13:08 +0200, Peter Slegg wrote:
> > On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 01:31:15 , "J. F. Lemaire" <jflemaire@skynet.be> wrote:
> > > On Saturday 1 March 2008, MiKRO wrote:
> > > > > I'm not familiar with srpm's. I assume they are just the source
> > > >
> > > > It's easy -- take srpm, i.e. package.srpm, install it (rpm -i
> > > > package.srpm) and build it (rpm -ba
> > > > /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/package.spec). I'd take this as starting point.
> > >
> > > Peter can't build from an SRPM if he doesn't have an SRPM to build from.
> > > I think you may be misunderstanding each other. Peter is trying to
> > > create source and binary RPM packages of the latest version of Pilot
> > > Link from the tarball.
> > >
> > > JFL
> >
> > Exactly right. I am trying to build the latest version, not the
> > one from Sparemint sources. I am also learning, hence all the
> > questions.
> >
> > Although I've spent 20 odd years developing code, almost none of
> > it has been C and very little on Unix so I am not familiar with the
> > tools and scripts. It's a steep learning curve as you probably realise.
> >
> > Late last night I was trying popt 1-13 which has the wchar problem
> > so I added Alan's suggested patch which helped it get as far as
> >
> > source='popthelp.c' object='popthelp.lo' libtool=yes \
> > DEPDIR=.deps depmode=gcc /bin/sh ./depcomp \
> > /bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.
> >     -Wall -g -O2 -c -o popthelp.lo popthelp.c
> >  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -Wall -g -O2 -c popthelp.c
> >  -Wp,-MD,.deps/popthelp.TPlo -o popthelp.o
> > popthelp.c: In function `singleOptionHelp':
> > popthelp.c:392: `mbstate_t' undeclared (first use in this function)
> >
> > mbstate_t is part of the real wchar:
> >
> > http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/glibc/libc_91.html
> >
> > So I added this to the wchar.h patch:
> >
> > #define mbstate_t
> >
> > but it doesn't help and fails at popthelp.c so maybe I have
> > defined it wrong above
> >
> > #ifdef    POPT_WCHAR_HACK
> >         {    const char * scopy = argDescrip;
> >         mbstate_t t;
>
> Peter,
>
> I've just taken a look at the popt source, and at the top of the
> popthelp.c there's a line that says...
>
> #define POPT_WCHAR_HACK
>
> just remove or comment out that line, and hopefully things will build
> just fine.
>
> Alan.
 
Excellent, well spotted. It compiles and it looks like the 3 tests work.
Presumably make install will install this on my Milan and overwrite the
existing version. Maybe it has to be removed first.

A couple of years ago I was looking at how to produce rpm files so I
suppose the next step is to try to package popt.

Regards,

Peter