[oe] [PATCH][RFC] gcc: Restructure package creation.

Otavio Salvador otavio at ossystems.com.br
Mon Feb 1 16:12:41 UTC 2010


Hello,

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org> wrote:
> I think it might be better to unbundle the libraries from gcc{-cross}
> altogether, and put them in a new recipe called gcc-runtime or
> something.  Having them built as part of gcc-cross seems to cause a
> certain level of headache for people who are using external toolchains;
> this happens already with libgcc and libstdc++, and I suspect your patch
> will cause the same issues to start popping up with the other libraries.

Indeed; for a outsider the gcc-cross looks like the really basic stuff
needed; not libraries and like.

> Or, even better, put the different language runtimes in separate recipes
> so that folks who want to use Fortran can build those libraries without
> everybody else needing to do so.

That would be really nice and could speedup the building time a bit.

Cheers,

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