On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 16:38 -0500, Vincent Béron wrote:
Yes while we're on the subject the FC2 RPMs are compiled with libICU giving GDI32 a dependency on libstdc++ 5, whereas FC3 apparently only installs libstdc++ 6 by default requiring the user to install compat-libstdc++ (assuming they can diagnose the linker/rpm error of course).
I guess that'd depend on where libICU comes from (and which libstdc++ it's compiled against). AFAIK, libICU is not shipped with FC2 nor FC3, so the libstdc++ version will depend on where it comes from (ie, not under my control). If people begin to mix from 3rd party builds without any thought about the dependencies on their system...
Hrm, I thought it came from your system? I mean the RPMs *seem* to include libICU: the gdi DLL is much bigger on disk than my own non-ICU build is, and it depends on libstdc++ which mine doesn't either. You're not building the FC RPMs with ICU?
People choosing the wrong RPM is a very common mistake.
What do you propose then? I can't prevent all user mistakes when they choose a filename.
It's not a very helpful answer right now but long term I'm proposing a single binary package that works for everyone, with distro-specific packages there for those who want them.
And I'll most probably do it for next release.
Cool.
thanks -mike