[Freemint-list] RPM packages

[Jason Fergus]

On Fri, 2017-03-17 at 01:20 +0100, Thorsten Otto wrote:
> 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.
> 
I've always wondered how hard it'd be to nick the Debian infrastructure
for FreeMiNT.  By this I mean a package search page, the autobuild
functionaitly, etc.  Ubuntu pretty much did the same thing and just
swapped out banners, and such.  Granted they're more of a fork of it,
but I mean it'd be pretty much the same thing, right?  m68k based
Debian with a swapped out kernel and mintlib instead of libc?

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