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Re: RFC: Cygwin 64 bit?


Am 09.07.2011 00:41, schrieb Yaakov (Cygwin/X):
On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 18:22 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
Doesn't that presuppose that every package maintainer would have to
modify their build scripts?  You can't just make this the default for ld
since not everyone who builds a program necessarily wants to put their
dll in .../lib64.
Modifying cygport(1), cygport(5)s, and other build scripts in some
fashion is inevitable for any of these solutions.  The only way to avoid
that would be to not support multilib in any form.  Since it seems I've
been outvoted on *that* point, the only question is finding which method
of multilib support which is the least painful.
I share cgf's concerns here and your hint isn't comforting me. It would mean that any package maintainer would have to modify scripts or makefiles unless they use cygport - which not all do. Well, I don't anyway. This would be asking for trouble.
Please don't introduce cygport as mandatory through a backdoor.
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Thomas



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