[oi-dev] inkscape calls gcc7 and 10

[Stephan Althaus]

On 7/7/23 19:07, Till Wegmüller wrote:
> On 07.07.23 07:20, Tim Mooney via oi-dev wrote:
>
> > The old all-in-one source is no longer a thing, so if we build from
> > released tarballs, we'll potentially need to fetch and extract multiple
> > components.
>
> That has been done before and one component can handle multiple 
> sources. Worst case one can use a shellscript to handle the download 
> and placing of all sources.
>
>> 1) lib2geom is required, but it could be built and packaged separately.
>> Nothing else (other than inkscape) that I'm aware of uses it currently.
>>
>> Would it be preferable to have it as a separate package, or just 
>> build it
>> and package it in the same package as inkscape?
> lib2geom would be preferable seperate. Just because it's the first 
> consumer it wont mean it's the last.
>
>
>>
>> 2) some of the extensions require low-use libraries, like the 'libwpd'
>> that Udo mentioned.
>>
>> Should the inkscape extensions that require these esoteric libraries be
>> split into separate packages, so 'image/inkscape' has fewer 
>> dependencies,
>> but 'image/inkscape/extension/wordperfect' (or whatever) can optionally
>> be installed to get support for that legacy format?
>
> Yes spilitting things up is a good idea. A base set can always be 
> bundled via requirements via a meta package.
>
>>
>> Next, 1.2.2 actually builds without *any* of the local patches, 
>> though I still
>> need to look through them to see if there are any OI-customization 
>> patches
>> that we still need.
>>
>> Many of the existing patches are for math library functions like
>> log(), sin(), pow(), etc. where integers rather than doubles were being
>> passed.  I can update these so they apply to 1.2.2, but they seem to be
>> no longer required (probably because of gcc/g++ 10.x).
>
> With int -> double convertions it is simply a build issue.
>
>>
>> Question:
>>
>> 3) is it worth updating these patches, if they're not needed to actually
>> build any more?  I'm tempted to say no, but I'm willing to update them
>> if Andreas or others have strong feelings about keeping as many > 
>> possible.
>
> As Udo mentioned runtime is most problematic.
>
>
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Hello!

if i do a

find ../../ -name pkg5 -exec grep -nH "gcc-7-runtime" {} \;|wc

in the source tree i get 86 lines..

Maybe we could start with the libs these are only 30..

Regards,
Stephan