Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] New packages

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

On Tuesday 23 June 2009 01:25:19 Charles Wilson wrote:
> >>    zlib
> >>    bzip2
> >>    xz
> >
> > I was planning to do these myself; (already have them built, and
> > just the split, packaging and distribution to complete).  Do you
> > want to take them over, or shall I continue with them?
>
> It's probably better if I take over xz just for synergy. I'm
> already bouncing patches back and forth with Lasse Collin
> concerning the build issues.

One of them, perhaps, being:

  .../mingw32/bin/as: BFD (GNU Binutils) 2.19.1 assertion fail 
     .../bfd/coff-i386.c:583
  .../src/liblzma/check/crc32_x86.S: Assembler messages:
  .../src/liblzma/check/crc32_x86.S:117: Error: cannot represent
     relocation type BFD_RELOC_386_GOTPC
  make[4]: *** [libcheck_la-crc32_x86.lo] Error 1
  make[4]: Leaving directory 
     `/home/keith/sandbox/xz-4.999.8beta/mingw32/src/liblzma/check'

This is xz-4.999.8beta configured with --disable-nls --disable-rpath 
(in addition to --build=i686-pc-linux --host=mingw32); if I also add 
--disable-shared, I can successfully build and deploy as a completely 
static library.

> I also maintain the cygwin builds of zlib, mingw-zlib [*], bzip2,
> and mingw-bzip2 [*], so I could do those two as well, but in the
> interests of preserving my sanity, how about you go ahead with
> zlib and bzip2?

Ok, I'll go ahead with that.  FWIW, I have bzip2 ready to deploy; (I 
autoconfiscated it, to make cross-compilation easier -- <sigh> why 
do some developers assume that their package needs are too modest to 
justify using autoconf?  Hand crafted configure scripts, or no 
configure scripts at all, are a total pain for those of us who have 
build requirements differing from those of the original developer).  
I'm in two minds, whether or not to repeat the exercise for zlib;
the proliferation of make variables which need manual reassignment to 
achieve a successful cross-build are, again, a total pain with their 
non-standard, hand-crafted configure script.

-- 

Regards,
Keith.