[Freemint-list] RPM packages

[Thorsten Otto]

On Friday 17 March 2017 00:37:14 Miro Kropáček wrote:
> Of course! :-) https://freemint.github.io/sparemint/sparemint/ (there's a
> link in the main site, https://freemint.github.io, too)

Oh. I did not see that link. Also, the link on the project page to the 
github.io is easy to miss.

>the packages are so old that it's perhaps not worth the effort (on the other 
>hand, they are tested and often specifically patched for FreeMiNT)

Thats one of the reasons i asked this. Would be nice to have some newer 
version of at least some of them. I think thanks to mintlib which is based on 
glibc, the effort for each package should not be so large. Only problem is 
that there are so many of them...

>fix compilation errors on newer (4.6.4) gcc

I would bet than in newer versions of the packages, most of these problems are 
already fixed.

>RPM is in general not very cross compiler friendly (at least the older 
>versions)

You can specify the same configure command that you would when compiling them 
manually. I see more problems with cross-compiling in general, because several 
packages make bad guesses when they cannot execute the tests, and mintlib is 
unfortunately not detected as glibc system. Most packages that use the gnulib 
modules are affected by this. The gmake there for example has severe problems 
with the current directory, because the (working) getcwd() function from 
mintlib is replaced by a broken wrapper.