[SFE-devel] sourceforge wiki access regained

[Thomas W. <Tho...@su...>]

Hi spec-filers :)

Laca enabled me as pkgbuild admin and this enabled me to be a wiki admin.

Now we gained edit access after several weeks of unsuccessfull tickets 
to the sourceforge staff, as said with no postive result. They had simply
no chce to change MediaWiki. The solution for us was to us a username (mine)
without special characters in it as the wiki admin. Sourceforge says that 
this is a mediawiki limitation.

I would like to discuss if we should keep the mediawiki on sourceforge 
or eventually move to a wiki on opensolaris.org.

The wiki idea is still to provide usefull tips for first time as wall as
for the experienced spec file users for writing spec files. Additionally
we have a (underpopulated!) areae with use tips for the software contained
in the spec files. Please see the examples for spamassassin to get this idea.

We have important work to to:
Last week I hold a tutorial at OpenSolaris Developer Conference (www.osdevcon.org)
and the room was full and we hat success with bootstrapping 3 build environments 
(out of 4).
Everyone aggreed that there is high demand for a documention of the spec 
files format with Solaris secifics. Additionally I would like to see code 
snippets of frequently used methods to solve problems with software witch 
doesn't compile or play out of the "OpenSource"-box.

It would be helpfull, if you know spec files with representative solutions
for common problems in spec files, please let us know. At least send a pointer
to a spec file you think that could give usefull copy&paste source for things 
like this:

====SNIPP====
  topic: force GCC compiler (3.x Version out of SFW on Solaris)
  Header-section
    #set gcc 3.x as the compiler
    %include Solaris.inc

    %define cc_is_gcc 1
    %define _gpp /usr/sfw/bin/g++
    %include base.inc

  %build
    export CC="/usr/sfw/bin/gcc"
    export CXX="/usr/sfw/bin/g++"

  Notes:
    1) you should really set the full patch to the compiler to avoid mixing with other install "gcc"/"g++" in your search path
    2) you need the setting "%define cc_is_gcc 1" to be after "%include Solaris.inc" and re-include "%include base.inc" afterwards
       to really set the right compiler/linker switches through the include/*inc set of files.
       Otherwise you could end up with SunStudio Compiler switches applied to the GCC compiler with fails regularly

====SNAPP====
The same repeated for the GCC4 compiler with changed paths and if necessary additional notes like that
gcc4 des support new syntax, has in some areas (which ones? possibly special multimedia code...) less bugs and so on.

Discussion welcome!
Contributions to the wiki welcome even more! :-)

Thomas

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