The installation failed with the following note:
> Noting disappearance of mxe-requirements,
> which has been completely replaced.
Add an empty file mxe-requirements.dummy.$release
to prevent this.
Debian packages with "Depends: " do not work:
> Reading package lists... Error!
> E: Problem parsing dependency Depends
> E: Error occurred while processing mxe-source (NewVersion2)
> E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/pkg.mxe.cc_repos_apt_debian_dists_wheezy_main_binary-amd64_Packages
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
There are 20 huge packages like gcc that are compiled for a half
of the build time. The time left expected by the progess printer
changes dramatically after building a huge package. Information
about huge packages smoothes the changes.
Example: "4_1_3" -> "4.1.3-20151028".
Adding build-unique (making two builds in one day is unlikely)
Debian patch version tells APT that the package was updated.
Underscores in versions were previously replaced with dashes.
Example: 4_1_3 -> 4-1-3 (package winpcap).
"-3" is interpreted as Debian patch version, which is wrong.
Move common code (making a directory, control file, running tar,
dpkg-deb, etc) to function makePackage(). This function is used
by functions makeDeb() and makeMxeRequirementsDeb().
"make target~pkg" doesn't work if target is not in
MXE_TARGETS. I believe such behaviout to be a feature
not a bug, because it seems to work faster with lesser
MXE_TARGETS.
str:match(pattern) treats pattern as a regular expression.
str:find(substring, 1, true) searches for a substring.
The latter is needed to check if a filename contains a target.
1. Remove common packages.
Common packages served a replacement for native target.
Now we have native target and don't need common packages.
Existing common files (ncurses) have to be fixed.
2. Package -> Item.
Item means a string "target~package".
All functions which used packages now use items.
3. One build list instead of 4 build lists.
All items are sorted and built together without separation
by target.
4. No module-global variable "target".
All functions using target now get "item" and target is
extracted from item. All remaining module-global variables
don't change (are constants) or are created in the bottom
of the module.
5. MXE_MAX_PACKAGES -> MXE_MAX_ITEMS
see #925
see #919
File ownership is set as string "root/root" in Debian files. So numeric
owners are converted to strings anyway. On FreeBSD numeric group "0" is
converted to "wheel" instead of "root".
see #901
Tony Theodore
Boris Nagaev