[Fedora-packaging] Early MinGW packaging guidelines draft

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 21:50 +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Thursday, 10 July 2008 at 12:44, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/MinGW
> > 
> > I'd like to get this discussed at FPC next Tuesday.  If anyone has any
> > technical points on the draft, can you let me know or edit the page.
> > 
> > (I've taken on board Ralf's point about mingw vs mingw32, although I'm
> > not sure what is the correct course of action at the moment ...)
> 
> Looks mostly fine to me, although I don't like the length of
> %{_prefix}/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw
> Could this be shortened to, say,
> %{_prefix}/i686-pc-mingw32/(sys)root/ ?
No.

.../sys-root/ is a foreign system's mapping onto the host system,
i.e. what is "/" under a native MinGW is /usr/i686-pc-ming32/sys-root/
under Fedora.

The "mingw" directory in ../sys-root/mingw is the standard directory
mingw uses natively to install in Windows and can't easily be remove.

> Are there going to be any files in %{_prefix}/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root
> that you need the additional /mingw there?
Hardly, but ... that's how things are supposed to be installed ;)

You could network mount this mingw/-directory under Windows, should this
be possible :)

Ralf