Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] build: fix some mingw issues

On 06/03/2010 04:08 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 03:53:12PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >> On Fedora 13 with sufficient mingw32-* packages installed, running >> ./autobuild.sh failed to cross-compile to mingw because >> mingw32-pthreads installed a broken <pthread.h>. With that >> issue fixed, the build still failed due to use of O_SYNC. > > Indeed you shouldn't install mingw32-pthreads - it horribly > pollutes the global namespace & libvirt doesn't want it - we > use Win32 native threads That would be nice, if yum didn't also insist upon removing everything else mingw related: Removing: mingw32-pthreads noarch 2.8.0-10.fc13 @fedora 936 k Removing for dependencies: mingw32-gcc x86_64 4.4.2-2.fc13 @fedora 3.1 M mingw32-gcc-c++ x86_64 4.4.2-2.fc13 @fedora 24 M mingw32-gettext noarch 0.17-12.fc12 @fedora 20 M mingw32-glib2 noarch 2.23.4-1.fc13 @fedora 7.6 M mingw32-glibmm24 noarch 2.23.2-1.fc13 @fedora 6.4 M mingw32-gnutls noarch 2.6.4-3.fc13 @fedora 2.4 M mingw32-libsigc++20 noarch 2.2.4.2-1.fc12 @fedora 1.7 M mingw32-libxml++ noarch 2.26.0-3.fc12 @fedora 1.2 M What's weird is that I don't recall having mingw32-pthreads installed on a 32-bit fedora 13; it must be something about the 64-bit x86_64 packages that is mistakenly sucking in this less-than-stellar package.

So, is the libvirt patch worth installing, while we wait for the eventual fix of dependencies to not force mingw32-pthreads on 64-bit users?