Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Proposal: libgnurx.mk and file.mk

[Mark Brand]

Hi Moritz,

Thanks for sharing your work. I committed your contributions "as-is" 
since I didn't spot any problems:

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/mingw-cross-env/rev/e1e166fcef0e
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/mingw-cross-env/rev/06da589b6885

Could I ask a favor? Could you send a patch for doc/index.html that 
modifes the "Requirements" appropriately? You mentioned that gettext is 
needed because of msgfmt. Gettext is already mentioned, but maybe not 
adequately. On opensuse this is provided by gettext-runtime. This is 
required by gettext-tools which is already listed there for opensuse. 
Any other distro-specific info you have would be appreciated.

I had a moment of doubt about the name "libgnurx". The normal rule is 
that we use the name of the project. For this case, it's not clear that 
the package has a project with name, and there seems to be a precedent 
for referring to it as "libgnurx".

Also wondering about the line in wxwidgets.mk:

    -$(MAKE) -C '$(1)/locale'

Does the - prefix mean that the step might fail and this would be okay?

> 2. file/magic:
<snip>
> Second, configure seems not to think that it's being cross-compiled 
> for some reason. Therefore I had to hardcode this in magic/Makefile.am 
> as well. 

I think Volker and Tony have dealt with this kind of thing in other 
packages. I wonder if it's interference from Wine.

Mark