Re: [gentoo-dev] gcc without ada,f77,objc ?

[Marko Mikulicic <marko@seul.org>]

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Johannes Findeisen wrote:
| hello achim,
|
| <snip>
|
|>Maybe the gcc ebuild can be splitted in different packages gcc/g++, f77,
|>objc, ada, java. Separated tarballs for these are already available (
|>http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/gnu/sourceware/gcc/releases/gcc-3.2.1/  ).
|
| </snip>
|
| that would be a nice idea... we didn't need more USE flags and could
give the
| seperated packages a special name like gcc-f77, gcc-java and so on.
|
| maybe there are some people around who want to do this work... if not,
i'm
| really interested in helping out... maybe there are some people who have
| allready tried it out...???

I don't like this idea. If I remember correctly, in order to build f77,
java or objc
the build system need to bootstrap at least the C compiler. Compiling
those packages
separately it's a waste of time.
~ I like the gentoo way of packaging software. I think it is better to
release a package
with the same contents of the sources provided by the author. Optional
software
can be selected with USE flags.
~ Eventually, if the problem arises in other packages, it could be
possible to make
a per-ebuild "use" flag, perhaps with useflag syntax (gcc-xxx), or
another system.

Marko

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