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Re: [ITP] cloudabi-toolchain, cloudab-binutils-*


2016-03-29 21:53 GMT+02:00 Warren Young <wyml@etr-usa.com>:
> On Mar 29, 2016, at 12:35 PM, Maurice Bos <m-ou.se@m-ou.se> wrote:
>>
>> The setup.hint files:
>>
>> category: Devel
>> requires:  clang cloudabi-binutils-aarch64 cloudabi-binutils-x86_64
>> sdesc: "Toolchain targetting CloudABI"
>> ldesc: "Toolchain targetting CloudABIâ
>
> Why does this package depend on both architecture-specific packages?  What if I only want to develop for x86_64, for example?

This is also how these packages are packaged for FreeBSD and Arch
Linux. But I can split them, I don't care much.

>> category: Devel
>> requires: cygwin
>> sdesc: "Binutils targetting aarch64 CloudABI"
>> ldesc: "Binutils targetting aarch64 CloudABIâ
>
> I believe the need for an explicit dependency on cygwin was removed many years ago.  A blank ârequiresâ line is perfectly legal.
>
> (If Iâm right about this, I believe Mr. Bos got this idea from the current setup.html page which still shows such examples.)

I used cygport to generate the packages. It did this automatically, it seems.

>
>> sdesc: "Binutils targetting x86_64 CloudABIâ
>
> Thatâs an obsolete spelling of âtargetingâ.

Thanks, updated.


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