Re: [Enigma-devel] Enigma svn head, level stats mechanism broken?

[Tacvek]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ronald Lamprecht" <address@hidden>
To: "Tacvek" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 6:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Enigma-devel] Enigma svn head, level stats mechanism broken?


> Hi,
>
> Tacvek wrote:
> > Ok. It appears that recent versions of the mingw32 debian package do not 
> > append '.exe' to the name of created exectuable.
> > This is valid, but means that software like enigma have to check for and 
> > manually rename the executable's as needed.
> > So to fix this, mingw32-dist.sh should check whether 'enigma.exe' exists, 
> > if it does not but 'enigma' does exist, it should do "cp enigma 
> > enigma.exe".
> >
> > Sigh. what was the MingW people thinking?
>
> Just another MingW lesson.

I suspect this change may not have been accidental. After all, when making 
an
object file "-o somefile", creates "somefile" not "somefile.o", so it seems 
within
reason that "-o somefile" should work the same when creating an executable.

However, doing that also seems likely to break other applications that 
depend
on the original behavior.

> I learned *NEVER* to upgrade to a candidate or a recent released MingW 
> version - all MingW versions released within the last year have been 
> withdrawn within a few weeks due to serious trouble they caused. May be 
> Debian uses such a meanwhile withdrawn version.

I was using an out of date MingW32 for a long time. In fact I was using the
exact same version as Daniel was using. I was eventually forced to upgrade
when Xerces hit some obsure bug in that version. So I told aptitude to 
upgrade my
MingW32 package to the latest version. As I'm using sid, this will be the 
latest version
released. Debian rarely reverts to an older version of the package, because 
that confuses
the package management system. So I currently have MingW 3.4.5.20060117.1

> Thus I stick to the MingW gcc 3.4.2-20040916 version, which is meanwhile 
> again the official "current" MingW version. Some time ago I added in the 
> repository "etc/build-cross.sh" to setup a stable cross compilation 
> environment.

I try to avoid installing non-debain packages outside of /usr/local, as
/usr is reserved for use by the package manager. That said, the subfolder of
/usr/ for mingw32 does contain some files not from Debian packages, but only
because It must, as debain does not have MingW32 packages for

> As far as I remember Daniel once suggested that we should put a compatible 
> set of the Enigma required *.dll on a download server. Perhaps we should 
> put them together with the above mentioned MingW version on the Berlios 
> developer ftp-server.

Indeed. I belive the DLL's I have in "enigma-devel/+build" either came fron 
Daniel,
or were copied from a 0.8x install, I don't rember which. They work fine, 
despite the
fact that they probably do not match the DLL's in the lib folder, or the 
headers I have
installed.

> - Ronald