Re: [Denemo-devel] [Fwd: Sbuild update 4.1.1]

[Richard Shann]

On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 15:25 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> I skimed through the readme and it does not have linux instructions.

Hmm, yes, that seems clear - it is for building on windows.
>  The only instructions are for usage on windows to cross compile for
> windows using mingw. I wonder if this would work on ReactOS.

Well, that sounds like it might get us mired down again - I couldn't
really make out what they have already built. It would have to be a lot
of what we need to tempt us, and even then, working in that environment
would be hellish. Perhaps it's not for us :(

Richard


> Jeremiah
> 
> On Mar 23, 2014 8:18 AM, "Jeremiah Benham"
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>         It does look like it could be usefull. I will see what I can
>         do with it!
>         
>         Jeremiah
>         
>         On Mar 23, 2014 3:27 AM, "Richard Shann"
>         <address@hidden> wrote:
>                 Jeremiah - is this relevant to our attempts to build
>                 stuff for windows?
>                 Richard
>                 
>                 
>                 
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>                 Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 05:11:37 +0400
>                 Subject: Sbuild update 4.1.1
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>                 S[mart|tupid] build[1] got a minjor update
>                 
>                 = About =
>                 
>                 sbuild is a set of scripts that build various free
>                 software packages for
>                 Windows from the source, starting with a GCC toolchain
>                 (cross-compiled)
>                 and MSYS2 core (cross-compiled), and ending with
>                 various applications
>                 (msys2-git, msys2-subversion, mingw-gdb), libraries
>                 and frameworks
>                 (GTK+, GNUnet, GStreamer). All buildscripts are
>                 written in
>                 simple-to-understand-style of POSIX shell language,
>                 and a few small
>                 utilities are in Python.
>                 
>                 = Release Highlights =
>                 
>                 == Package Of The Day ==
>                 
>                 Today's Package Of The Day is GtkParasite[2] - a GTK+
>                 plugin for
>                 messing with GTK+ applications at runtime. With the
>                 advent of GTK+-3.x
>                 it's now more important than ever to be able to try
>                 out theming CSS
>                 without restarting applications, and GtkParasite does
>                 the job. It also
>                 has ridiculously cute logo (which in no way influenced
>                 my decision to
>                 make GtkParasite the Package Of The Day).
>                 
>                 == MSYS2 ==
>                 
>                 Not much has happened in MSYS2 land. Actually, no,
>                 some things did
>                 happen in upstream MSYS2 (new path mangling), but they
>                 didn't make it
>                 into 4.1.1, because i'm lazy.
>                 
>                 Anyway, MinGW/MSYS console is now set to use UTF-8 by
>                 default via
>                 LANG=en_US.UTF-8. This fixes some bugs with printing
>                 UTF8 text via
>                 printf that i've discovered a few months ago.
>                 
>                 I've finally had enough of CPAN and switched
>                 Perl-vendor download
>                 location to Fedora repositories. Hopefully, i won't
>                 need to update
>                 Perl-vendor as often as i did simply to keep up with
>                 CPAN dropping off
>                 old package versions.
>                 
>                 A gross bug in one of the custom libxslt patches i've
>                 been applying
>                 was fixed (the patch wasn't mine, by the way), this
>                 should
>                 dramatically reduce the number of xsltproc-related
>                 docbuilding failures.
>                 
>                 msys2-p11-kit and its direct dependencies are now
>                 built a bit earlier.
>                 
>                 == MinGW ==
>                 
>                 MinGW-W64 didn't get any noteworthy updates, but
>                 winpthreads did get a
>                 patch that added a new pthreads function.
>                 
>                 Of note are updates to GNUTLS and libpng that fix
>                 security bugs.
>                 GNUTLS is particularly messy, as caused rtmpdump to
>                 need rebuilding,
>                 which caused libcurl to need rebuilding, which cause
>                 CMake to need
>                 rebuilding.
>                 
>                 There was an update to my GCC builds, which enabled
>                 pthreads in GCC.
>                 This ended up with me tagging sbuild 4.1, but i
>                 neglected to announce
>                 the update. Hence the "minjor" update this time.
>                 
>                 I've successfully built webkitgtk and Pidgin. Packages
>                 for those
>                 didn't make it into sbuild (but are available upon
>                 request), since i
>                 judged them to be too specialized; also, webkit alone
>                 takes HOURS to
>                 build...), but some of their dependencies did. In
>                 particular, i was
>                 told that PyGObject (Py2GObject, in this case) is
>                 awesome to have, so
>                 now sbuild builds it, and you can use GTK+-3.x from
>                 Python-2.x.
>                 
>                 Another notable addition is DBus (it passes the
>                 testsuite, but i'm
>                 still not sure how its usage in applications is going
>                 to play out).
>                 
>                 Added a script for updating Python EasyInstall package
>                 list (since
>                 sbuild used to screw it up, and now doesn't even touch
>                 it). Feels
>                 hackish, but hopefully it'll keep the damage to your
>                 Python
>                 installation minimal.
>                 
>                 Glib/GTK+ got some attention, which resulted in
>                 updates to some
>                 libraries in the G stack, and some patches
>                 (admittedly, one GTK+-3.x
>                 patch is experimental, and may cause memory leaks;
>                 it's better than
>                 crashing though, which is what happens without it).
>                 
>                 Finally, a string of spelling-related packages
>                 (aspell, enchant,
>                 gtkspell) is now built. They all work (tested this on
>                 gtkspell example
>                 app), and there's an English dictionary for aspell
>                 built and installed
>                 by default.
>                 
>                 == Issues known to be fixed ==
>                 
>                 gnome-doc-utils might fail to build with a message
>                 along these lines:
>                 xsltApplyStylesheet: saving to C/<name> may not be
>                 possible. This was
>                 fixed.
>                 
>                 == Issues for which nothing is known ==
>                 
>                 On one occasion gnome-doc-utils buildscript was
>                 reported to act in a
>                 manner similar to a fork bomb (!?!?), repeatedly (on
>                 restarts of the
>                 build process). Unable to reproduce, re-running the
>                 build from scratch
>                 seemed to have helped.
>                 No new reports of this bug.
>                 
>                 gobject-introspection might fail to generate stuff
>                 (failure at
>                 shutil.rmtree() in gdumpparser.py), especially on slow
>                 machines. Re-run
>                 the build from the last step.
>                 No new insights into this bug.
>                 
>                 xsltproc.exe from msys-xsltproc might segfault. Re-run
>                 the build from
>                 the last step.
>                 No new insights into this bug.
>                 
>                 
>                 = List of new packages =
>                 
>                     mingw-dbus-1-1.8.0-1
>                     mingw-gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.0-3.11.91-1
>                     mingw-json-glib-1.0-0.99.2-1
>                     mingw-gtksourceview-3.11.91-1
>                     mingw-py2cairo-1.10.0-1
>                     mingw-pygobject-3.11.90-1
>                 
>                 
> mingw-gtkparasite-3.0-git-445cd7a0fb6407b2bc1f979ec11d5e57da80df22-1
>                     mingw-aspell-0.60.7-20131207-1
>                     mingw-aspell6-en-7.1-0-1
>                     mingw-enchant-1.6.0-1
>                     mingw-gtkspell3-3.0.4-1
>                 
>                 = List of updated W32-compiled packages =
>                 
>                     mingw-libpng16 to 1.6.9-1
>                     mingw-libgsf-1 to 1.14.29-2
>                     mingw-automake1.11 to 1.11.6-5
>                     mingw-libatomic_ops to 7.4.0-2
>                     mingw-bdw-gc to 7.4.0-2
>                     mingw-libxslt to 1.1.28-6
>                     mingw-gnutls to 3.2.12.1-1
>                     mingw-atk-1.0 to 2.11.90-1
>                     mingw-gettext to 0.18.3.2-1
>                     mingw-icu4c to 52.1-2
>                     mingw-rtmpdump to
>                 git-79459a2b43f41ac44a2ec001139bcb7b1b8f7497-1
>                     mingw-curl to 7.35.0-2
>                     mingw-w32-cpython2.7-lib to 1.0-4
>                     mingw-python-markupsafe to 0.18-3
>                     mingw-python-mako to 0.9.1-2
>                     mingw-intltool to 0.50.2-3
>                     mingw-glib-2.0 to 2.39.92-1
>                     mingw-gobject-introspection-1.0 to 1.39.90-1
>                     mingw-gtk-doc to 1.20-1
>                     mingw-gtk+-3.0 to 3.11.9-1
>                 
>                     msys-perl_vendor to 5.18.0-6
>                     msys-libatomic_ops to 7.4.0-2
>                     msys-bdw-gc to 7.4.0-2
>                     msys-libxslt to 1.1.28-3
>                     msys-icu4c to 52.1-2
>                 
>                 = List of updated cross-compiled packages =
>                 
>                 mingw-mingw-w64-crt-svn-r6493-1
>                 mingw-mingw-w64-headers-svn-r6493-1
>                 mingw-winpthreads-svn-r6493-2
>                 mingw-gcc-4.8.2-3
>                 
>                 
>                 [1]
>                 https://www.gitorious.org/sbuild/sbuild/archive/4.1.1.tar.gz
>                 [2] http://chipx86.github.io/gtkparasite/
>                 
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