Re: [MiNT] What's the deal with time.h? (and wctype.h)

[Mark Duckworth <mduckworth@atari-source.org>]

ggn (HOL) wrote:
> Hello Helmut,
>
> Monday, September 28, 2009, 2:44:34 AM, you wrote:
>
>   
> > Am 27.09.2009, 23:21 Uhr, schrieb ggn (HOL) <ggn@hol.gr>:
> >     
>
>   
> > >   So  I downloaded the source package, copied the Atari specific  
> > > Makefile to the
> > >   root dir and hit make.
> > >       
>
>   
> > You should use the unix-makefile. I successfully built zip 3.0 and unzip
> > 5.52 some time ago with little changes. I can't remember if I ran
> > configure.
> >     
>
> Well  the  unix  makefile  did  work ok for unzip. But to compile zip wchar.h is
> required  for  unicode support. So I downloaded and built mintlib 0.58.0. When I
> tried compiling, gcc complained about the lack of header file wctype.h, in which
> a function called twupper() is defined (I guess!).
>
> So  for  now I left out unicode support, and it builds fine. Which leads me to a
> few questions:
>
> a) Anyone interested in the binaries as is?
> b)  Should  I  try  to  create  RPMs or are they not necessary? (note: I have no
> previous experience in creating them :))
> c)  Is  there  any  work  being  done  on  mintlib to support new functions like
> twupper()?
>
>
>   
You should create RPM's.  If you can't or don't want to, please upload 
the modified source code and the original source code archives somewhere 
and I can take care of it for you.

PS:  I've been starting to rip hard into my new sparemint project 
again.  Maybe I'll be able to stick with it this time until it's a 
properly working product.

Thanks,
Mark