Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Jonathan Nieder dixit: >> I had thought that Matthias was (for good reasons) not interested in >> the stock binutils source package producing cross-compilers for >> additional targets on autobuilders, and that the binutils-source > > I heard there was interest in having limited combinations > available. We'll see.
I'm not sure what that has to do with what I said. If the binutils source package produces cross-compilers, that would make binutils updates take longer on autobuilders and have more chance of failing to build; hence, cross-compilers like mingw grab the same source code through a Build-Depends from a different source package. This is the same trick that packages such as gcj-4.6 use. The gcc-4.6 source package builds binary packages for C, Fortran, Objective C, and C++ support. It does not build packages for Java support. The gcj-4.6 source package is smaller and Build-Depends on the "gcc-4.6-source" binary package, to allow source and rules to be shared with gcc-4.6. > For now, the next pcc upload will > not require this anyway. Thanks for the update. Alas. Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
