Re: [MiNT] SpareMiNT MiNTLib / MiNTBin Conflicts and Outdated PML / Fdlibm

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 12:56 -0400, Keith Scroggins wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> So, I have been working on building 0.59.1 RPMs for SpareMiNT.  I actually 
> have an RPM set built....
> 
> So far, have run into 2 issues.
> 
> The first is that both the mintbin package, and the newer mintlib have 
> ar.h.  My resolution is just rebuild and remove from mintbin, and then fix 
> the spec for mintlib to want the newer revision.

Yes, mintbin has had this removed.

> The other issue is that math.h is now removed.  Both PML and Fdlibm, as 
> packaged in SpareMiNT, do not contain their own math.h.  My solution for 
> this is to just rebuild the packages, PML with Vicent's patches adding 
> Coldfire support, and take a look at the Fdlibm in CVS.  Alan, have 
> you done more Fdlibm work?  I saw that at least a math.h is present in 
> CVS.

Right. We'd need to do a release of fdlibm which has math.h.
Alternatively we merge a math library into mintlib. Patrice mentioned
one in an earlier thread.

> This is an issue because on install of mintlib-devel, rpm will delete the 
> math.h file as it was the previous package owner of it, and it is now not 
> present.
> 
> Otherwise, the only changes made to MiNTLib (and I'll submit a patch) is 
> enabling Coldfire libraries, upping the version, and rpm changelog.  I'm 
> thinking about fixing the spec to require the newer mintbin as well, but 
> not sure yet.
> 
> Any thoughts?

Send patches and we can all discuss.

Thanks,

Alan.