[Rpm-maint] Problems using RPM to build cross-compiled (MinGW/Windows) packages

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 07:56:31AM -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
> You will want to probably define _strip as true or provide a custom  
> __os_install_post.  This is a necessity if you are creating a cross  
> compiler with binaries for another architecture.

I maybe should have said that I'm aware of the workarounds used to
modify __os_install_post and was just wondering if we could get
something in base RPM instead, but ...

> For packages compiled to run on a different target the right approach is  
> to provide a macro file that will be autoloaded by rpm using  
> --target=i686-mingw32.  In this file you can specify all of the things  
> that a target package uses to compile, strip, etc.

... I didn't know you could do this, and it looks like a better
approach to try.

Thanks everyone,

Rich.

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