From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Tue Jun 1 13:50:55 2010 Message-ID: <4C0547E4.2080004@atari-source.org> Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:48:20 -0400 From: Mark Duckworth User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Subject: Re: [MiNT] SpareMiNT MiNTLib / MiNTBin Conflicts and Outdated PML / Fdlibm References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: mduckworth@atari-source.org Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: On 6/1/10 12:56 PM, 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. > > 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. > > 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? > > Keith > > We should do the math lib the same way as you are doing mintbin. Rebuild both math libs with a virtual provide of "math-library", then make mintlib Require math-library. This would force the user to install one or the other mathlib. Also make mintlib incompatible with older math libraries than these. Just my 2 cents. Thanks, Mark