Re: [MiNT] RPM Targets for binaries

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 06:58:23 -0400 (EDT), Keith Scroggins <kws@radix.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, m0n0 wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Probably this was told several times before, maybe it's even the issue
> > Keith talked several times before - but how should I provide Binary
> > packages of an program (not an lib)?
> >
> > Should I provide different RPM's for different machines?
> > Keith talked about Multi-Architecture RPM's containing libs AND
> > Executables, but providing RPM's that just contain executables is also
> > unclear.
> > Of course it is no big problem creating different spec files, but that is
> > not good when things have to be changed in the spec file.
>
> Rather than post it, here is 'basically my current thought:
>
> http://atarimint.blogspot.com/2010/06/multi-target-sparemint-rpm-thoughts-how.html
>
> I have just rebuilt RPM to verify it works and compiles with the newer
> tools.  Next I'm going to modify the package to add those targets, so, in
> most cases only 1 spec should ever be needed.
>
> The biggest problem arises when a package is a mixture of libs and
> binaries, not sure, yet, what to do for it.  Multiple dev libs for each
> target will cause RPM issues since headers will conflict between them if
> you want multiple CPU targets.
>
> Keith

Is this bringing us to the point were we need some form of loadable libs ?
This means that each app will load the appropriate lib installed on the machine.

Peter