Re: [Mingw-users] RPM packages

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

DNTP!!!

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 5:08 AM, ralph engels <ral...@gm...> wrote:
> True for standard mingw using these packages will not work but i use them
> with some succes on mingw64 (a few needed recompilation because of internal
> paths being different "mostly affects tools that use bash scripts or
> otherwise rely on a unix shell"). Luckily most of the sources and patches
> from there RPM repo compile just fine with msys/mingw, there are a few cases
> where you need work around some shortcommings of the Msys shell but they are
> luckily rare enough.

Doesn't RPM build the source package rather than offering a binary?
This can be good but on Windows can be very bad because of the amount
of time it takes to do the build.

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