From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EQ7Av-00049z-EX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:47:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9DHb1xn027361; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:37:01 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9DHZIPC029955 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:35:18 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EQ78f-0006Lb-Pc for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:45:09 +0000 Received: (qmail 30129 invoked from network); 13 Oct 2005 13:41:16 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 13 Oct 2005 13:41:16 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New category for xmingw cross compile toolchain Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 13:47:01 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <434E8A69.6080404@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <434E8A69.6080404@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510131347.01960.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 9ea35a36-6235-45d5-86cf-9f3fa89d5473 X-Archives-Hash: 14c40716e47b05998c20dc378dd06bd5 On Thursday 13 October 2005 12:25 pm, Stefan Jones wrote: > dev-util/xmingw-binutils dev-util/xmingw-runtime > dev-util/xmingw-gcc dev-util/xmingw-w32api i'd prefer to see these moved into the normal binutils/gcc ebuilds myself > But every so often people submit ebuild for other libraries for use with > this toolchain > ( eg. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101468 ) > > I have not added them up to now as it would, in my opinion, just clutter > things. are these libraries special ? that is, are these things specific to xmingw ? or are they just ebuilds which take normal packages and force them to be compiled with the xmingw toolchain ? if they are xmingw-specific, then they should be added to the tree as sep packages, but if they are normal packages and these ebuilds are special hacks to cross compile them with xmingw, then they have no business in the tree -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list