From: Matthew Gambrell <mgambrell(a)gmail.com&gt; Subject: Re: FCEUX To: "John Arntz" <jsarntz(a)yahoo.com&gt; Date: Saturday, January 16, 2010, 2:23 PM For issue 1, nothing I can do about that, although we are currently considering how to better communicate with people since mailing lists are apparently not reliable. I'll let you know when we change anything. For issue 2, I suggest you investigate the way lua is commonly used and what it is intended for, specifically the way it is meant to be compile-time customized and embedded in programs. Your distro's policy is not applicable to lua, and if they are applying it, then they are wrong, and you need to argue with them about that.  In general, what are we supposed to do if we are using a library that has been heavily modified? Wouldn't we have no choice but to drop it into our source tree? For issue 3, this hasn't stopped any number of other distros from packaging fceux.  Perhaps you should see how theyve dealt with it. In fceux, it is not such a big deal since there are only two applications really, but what are larger projects with more buildable targets in their source tree supposed to do? Cut a dozen tarballs out of the source tree? On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:42 PM, John Arntz <jsarntz(a)yahoo.com&gt; wrote: Greetings, My name is John Arntz, and I and one of the people attempting to package FCEUX for http://rpmfusion.org which is a repository for Fedora RPM packages that cannot be packaged in Fedora itself for various reasons. I'm writing you because I am having a couple issues. The first issue I am having is that I would have posted this on the discussion mailing list, however I am having trouble subscribing. I have filled out the request, but have not yet gotten back a confirmation E-Mail. I used this E-Mail address to subscribe with. Second, the main issue preventing us from making a package is the fact that FCEUX uses Lua statically. RPM Fusion follows the Fedora packaging guidelines, which state that a package must be built using system provided libraries. The problem I am encountering is that FCEUX will not compile with the system provided Lua because one of your source files requires header files from the static Lua source. Specifically, in lua-engine.cpp, line 1064 where the comment says if this line crashes, your header files are out of sync with lua lib. Fedora is using the current header files that came with the latest version of lua, so AFAIK that is not the issue. I need to know is what I need to fix to make FCEUX compile using the system provided libraries. The third issue is that FCEUX/GFCEUX should be split into two separate tarballs. This is more of a minor issue, but it would be easier for packages if these two peices of software were in their own tarballs. I love FCEUX. It is my favorite NES Emulator, so that's why I chose to try to package it for RPM Fusion. Any assistance you could provide to make this possible would be greatly appreciated. Regards, John S. Arntz