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

[Jeremiah Benham]

I think if we were to move away from gub we should switch to mxe. It is just a matter of debuging what gets built.

Jeremiah
On Mar 24, 2014 3:53 PM, "Richard Shann" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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-deskt