[Gtkradiant] Bundled libraries

[bebo_sudo]

Il 02/04/2013 02:17, Christopher ha scritto:
> I may have misunderstood what you are trying to do then. I don't know
> the source code well so I can only guess how it currently does things.
> I'd appreciate someone that knows it better than me to chime in.
>
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 6:51 PM, bebo_sudo <bebo.sudo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Il 01/04/2013 22:32, Christopher ha scritto:
>>
>>> If you're not a programmer you're going to have a hard time making
>>> Radiant comply with having to have packages externally. Radiant
>>> requires the libraries it uses to perform functions, e.g. the image
>>> libraries to load textures. Removing the code would mean Radiant
>>> couldn't show textures at all.
>>>
>>> What you would have to do is basically leave the code as-is, change
>>> the compiling script to not statically-link the libraries, then write
>>> some code to load the libraries when it loads. I haven't looked at the
>>> code base in ages and I haven't used dynamically loaded libraries yet
>>> in any of my own code so I don't know the specifics on making that
>>> work.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 2:58 PM, bebo_sudo<bebo.sudo at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>> Il 01/04/2013 18:46, Christopher ha scritto:
>>>>
>>>>> Why not dynamically load the library instead of stripping the
>>>>> functions they provide?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 12:12 PM, bebo_sudo<bebo.sudo at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>>> in my attempt to do the, by now famous, rpm for fedora, I bumped into
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> embedded libraries, libpng and libjpeg.
>>>>>> The fedoraproject doesn't allow built-in libraries in rpm, so I have to
>>>>>> remove them, as said here by Hans de Goede:
>>>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=836840#c15
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The needed libraries will be required by the rpmbuild itself at the
>>>>>> moment
>>>>>> of the install.
>>>>>> Now my question is: how to patch the sources to remove any sort of
>>>>>> these
>>>>>> libs?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I tried to remove the most part of files in which I encountered the
>>>>>> "png"
>>>>>> or
>>>>>> "jpeg" words but I think I made some errors.
>>>>>> Here I uploaded my attempt of a patch:http://pastebin.com/iG4nDEWf
>>>>>> and here the exit status when I try to build the rpm:
>>>>>> http://pastebin.com/FY3f2rEA
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How can I avoid scons to build these libraries?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Greetings,
>>>>>> bebo
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>>>> Thank's for your reply.
>>>>
>>>> I have to tell I'm not a programmer and I don't know exactly what
>>>> "dinamically load" means.
>>>> I think the fedoraproject want packages done in this way because if every
>>>> package would bundle in itself its libs, the fedora repositories would be
>>>> very heavy.
>>>>
>>>> Are there differences between the embedded version and the version i take
>>>> from the fedora repos? didn't have the same functions?
>>>>
>>>> If you want to contribute to packaging gtkradiant for fedora I will be
>>>> glade
>>>> to see you on bugzilla.
>>>>
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>> But, using the same libraries, shouldn't it be the same thing?
>>
>> E.g. the libjpeg.so.62 library, isn't the same of the one inside this
>> package?
>> dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/18/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/l/libjpeg-turbo-1.2.1-3.fc18.i686.rpm
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(I think) I should avoid scons build libs already included in the fedora 
repository.

I will wait someone else more skilled about libs.
Thanks anyway for your time Christopher.

~bebo