[arch-dev-public] gcc / gcc-libs / gcc-fortran / gcc-objc splitup issues

[Damir Perisa]

Friday 25 January 2008, Jan de Groot wrote:
 | Hi all,
 |
 | Recently we have gotten bugreports about gcc not having certain
 | features of languages because we compile our compiler languages as
 | split packages. (FS#9325).
 |
 | For objc, we already compile objc inside the gcc package, then
 | remove it, to build it again in a package for extra. To fix
 | gfortran, we would need to do the same...
 |
 | I've been thinking about this splitup: gfortran and objc aren't
 | that big. They could be included in the main gcc/gcc-libs
 | PKGBUILDs. For java, we will keep the split package. Other
 | distributions like Debian and Ubuntu also have their gcj things
 | separated.
 |
 | Merging objc doesn't bring extra dependencies, merging fortran
 | brings in mpfr. Do we have a problem with this change?

no problem, i welcome this migration!

- D


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